RECOMMENDED READING: SLAVERY BY ANOTHER NAME BY DOUGLASS BLACKMON
BROTHERS AND SISTERS THIS IS A VERY INFORMATIVE BOOK THAT EVERYONE ON BIA SHOULD READ. AVAILABLE FROM BARNES & NOBLE BOOKSELLERS AND AMAZON.COM.
Slavery by Another Name:
The Re-Enslavement of Black People in America from the Civil War to World War II
Author: Douglas A. Blackmon
Publisher: Doubleday, $29.95 (512p) ISBN 978-0-385-50625-0
On Sale: March 25, 2008
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The Age of Neo-Slavery
In this groundbreaking historical expose, Douglas A. Blackmon brings to light one of the most shameful chapters in American history—when a cynical new form of slavery was resurrected from the ashes of the Civil War and re-imposed on hundreds of thousands of African-Americans until the dawn of World War II.
Under laws enacted specifically to intimidate blacks, tens of thousands of African Americans were arbitrarily arrested, hit with outrageous fines, and charged for the costs of their own arrests. With no means to pay these ostensible “debts,” prisoners were sold as forced laborers to coal mines, lumber camps, brickyards, railroads, quarries and farm plantations. Thousands of other African Americans were simply seized by southern landowners and compelled into years of involuntary servitude. Government officials leased falsely imprisoned blacks to small-town entrepreneurs, provincial farmers, and dozens of corporations—including U.S. Steel Corp.—looking for cheap and abundant labor. Armies of "free" black men labored without compensation, were repeatedly bought and sold, and were forced through beatings and physical torture to do the bidding of white masters for decades after the official abolition of American slavery.
The neoslavery system exploited legal loopholes and federal policies which discouraged prosecution of whites for continuing to hold black workers against their wills. As it poured millions of dollars into southern government treasuries, the new slavery also became a key instrument in the terrorization of African Americans seeking full participation in the U.S. political system.
Based on a vast record of original documents and personal narratives, SLAVERY BY ANOTHER NAME unearths the lost stories of slaves and their descendants who journeyed into freedom after the Emancipation Proclamation and then back into the shadow of involuntary servitude. It also reveals the stories of those who fought unsuccessfully against the re-emergence of human labor trafficking, the modern companies that profited most from neoslavery, and the system’s final demise in the 1940s, partly due to fears of enemy propaganda about American racial abuse at the beginning of World War II.
SLAVERY BY ANOTHER NAME is a moving, sobering account of a little-known crime against African Americans, and the insidious legacy of racism that reverberates today.
Slavery by Another Name:
The Re-Enslavement of Black People in America from the Civil War to World War II
Author: Douglas A. Blackmon
Publisher: Doubleday, $29.95 (512p) ISBN 978-0-385-50625-0
On Sale: March 25, 2008
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The Age of Neo-Slavery
In this groundbreaking historical expose, Douglas A. Blackmon brings to light one of the most shameful chapters in American history—when a cynical new form of slavery was resurrected from the ashes of the Civil War and re-imposed on hundreds of thousands of African-Americans until the dawn of World War II.
Under laws enacted specifically to intimidate blacks, tens of thousands of African Americans were arbitrarily arrested, hit with outrageous fines, and charged for the costs of their own arrests. With no means to pay these ostensible “debts,” prisoners were sold as forced laborers to coal mines, lumber camps, brickyards, railroads, quarries and farm plantations. Thousands of other African Americans were simply seized by southern landowners and compelled into years of involuntary servitude. Government officials leased falsely imprisoned blacks to small-town entrepreneurs, provincial farmers, and dozens of corporations—including U.S. Steel Corp.—looking for cheap and abundant labor. Armies of "free" black men labored without compensation, were repeatedly bought and sold, and were forced through beatings and physical torture to do the bidding of white masters for decades after the official abolition of American slavery.
The neoslavery system exploited legal loopholes and federal policies which discouraged prosecution of whites for continuing to hold black workers against their wills. As it poured millions of dollars into southern government treasuries, the new slavery also became a key instrument in the terrorization of African Americans seeking full participation in the U.S. political system.
Based on a vast record of original documents and personal narratives, SLAVERY BY ANOTHER NAME unearths the lost stories of slaves and their descendants who journeyed into freedom after the Emancipation Proclamation and then back into the shadow of involuntary servitude. It also reveals the stories of those who fought unsuccessfully against the re-emergence of human labor trafficking, the modern companies that profited most from neoslavery, and the system’s final demise in the 1940s, partly due to fears of enemy propaganda about American racial abuse at the beginning of World War II.
SLAVERY BY ANOTHER NAME is a moving, sobering account of a little-known crime against African Americans, and the insidious legacy of racism that reverberates today.
THIS IS A BLOG NOT POSTED BY SIEBRA-THE BUTTERFLY LADY ADDRESSED TO ME
ROBERT POWELL
Robert,
While I don't doubt that you are an intellligent person, like Mr. Watley you commit logical fallacy against logical fallacy against Me, Sister Marta, Elijah Muhammad, and Minister Farrakhan, and then present them to me and other BIA members as facts. And you think I am so silly to believe your hypocritical ass after you put out a statement that Louis Farrakhan left the NOI for a brief period and later returned. Yeah, I can say the word "ass" since there is no RULE in Islam against using foul langugage. I am one month shy of being 28 years old and have been in the NOI since birth. My father just so happens to be a NOI minister. If you worked for the Muslims before you would know that there are many sects. And Elijah Muhammad gave clear instructions that NOI members are NOT following Al-Islam which is Middle Eastern Islam. He was presenting to us a NEW Islam. A Black Nationalist Islam. A CHANGE that we all can believe in. I am quite sure you have read my comment on Sister Irma's blog topic "Seek and You Will Find" as to why Elijah Muhammad referred to the whiteman as the devil. Louis Farrakhan was born Louis Walcott before changing his name to Louis X, as you know the X is used in place of our "slave name". Upon talking a pilgrimage (which is one of the five pillars of Islam) he changed his name to AbdulHaleem Farrakhan. The name Farrakhan means "fire will come" But he chose to refer to himself as Louis Farrakhan because that is the name he is professionally known to the nation and world as.
The more I read your blog comments the more you fit Marta's explanation of "virtuality":
1. You are lonely and sit at your computer doing vile things and trying to express your hurt in words. Many times you are unable to confront the issues and the internet offers instant "anonymity." Yes I can call it cowardly because if I try to respond as if it were real I cannot since it's an unseen and unknown enemy.
2. People like you create phony FAKE profiles all of the time--I particularly notice the ones with "name tags" are the most obvious.
3. People like you like to create chaos--they are filled with hatred and pain. Some have an EGO problem wherein they edge GOD out.
You see as long as I am a member of this site I will never forget that I am a Black Queen--and that by being a member of the Nation of Islam I am way ahead of the average Black American and the average Black in the Diaspora. It is always my privilege and pleasure to engage in discourse with my sisters & brothers in the NOI with some real k-n-o-w-l-e-d-g-e!
As an NOI member I was made aware of my blackness from a very early age, and that's what makes me pray for my dead brothers and sisters but fight like HELL for the salvation, liberation, and freedom of our living. I am not an ignorant person. You, Mr. Watley and other like-minded people who call my blogs UNREALl are. And since it seems like YOU have to be RIGHT all of the time, our President's first name is not spelled Baraka, it's Barack, OK?
Look, it doesn't make sense to continue this conversation with you, but like I said, if you don't have anything good to say about Me and Marta, keep it to yourself! And don't even think about writing back because I don't talk to people with "better than thou" attitudes!
Ok,
Siebra
P.S. DON'T WRITE BACK!!!