Urgent, definitive, powerful. The most important work of history published in a very long time.'
Bill Cosby
In Slavery by Another Name Douglas A. Blackmon eviscerates one of our schoolchildren's most basic assumptions: that slavery in America ended with the Civil War. Mr. Blackmon unearths shocking evidence that the practice persisted well into the 20th century.'
New York Times
A Pulitzer Prize-winning history of the mistreatment of black Americans. In this 'precise and eloquent work' - as described in its Pulitzer Prize citation - Douglas A. Blackmon brings to light one of the most shameful chapters in American history - an 'Age of Neoslavery' that thrived in the aftermath of the Civil War through the dawn of World War II. Using a vast record of original documents and personal narratives, Blackmon 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 thereafter. By turns moving, sobering and shocking, this unprecedented account reveals these stories, the companies that profited the most from neoslavery, and the insidious legacy of racism that reverberates today.
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A Pulitzer Prize-winning history of the mistreatment of black Americans.
A Pulitzer Prize-winning history of the mistreatment of black Americans.
Produktdetaljer
ISBN
9781848314122
Publisert
2012-10-04
Utgiver
Icon Books
Vekt
362 gr
Høyde
198 mm
Bredde
129 mm
Dybde
28 mm
Aldersnivå
G, 01
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
468
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