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Slavery by Another Name
- The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II
- Narrated by: Dennis Boutsikaris
- Length: 15 hrs and 53 mins
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Summary
Pulitzer Prize, General Nonfiction, 2009
In this groundbreaking historical expose, Douglas A. Blackmon brings to light one of the most shameful chapters in American history: an Age of Neoslavery that thrived from the aftermath of the Civil War through the dawn of World War II.
Using a vast record of original documents and personal narratives, Douglas A. 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 shortly thereafter.
By turns moving, sobering, and shocking, this unprecedented account reveals the stories of those who fought unsuccessfully against the re-emergence of human labor trafficking, the companies that profited most from neoslavery, and the insidious legacy of racism that reverberates today.
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- Avid reader
- 09-04-23
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This book should be made available in every school, college and university in the world.
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- Dog in a Flat Cap
- 15-02-16
Brilliant, important, devastating book
Listened to this over a weekend. Cannot praise it highly enough. It's extremely well-researched, well-written and well-narrated. The topic itself is just devastating. As someone who thought they were well-informed about slavery in America, this opened my eyes to the reality of life in the South after the civil war. I now find there are other books on the topic which I'll duly investigate, but Douglas Blackmon has done a fine job here.
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- Pam Jolliffe
- 19-08-20
1945 End of slavery in USA
A difficult read. Written by a journalist and full of facts almost impossible to believe. The treatment of black Americans post war of independence until propaganda from Nazi germany and Japan forced central government to enforce their own laws. If workers were required the local Sheriff and Law courts would oblige and benefit. The convict was unlikely to survive the conditions. A slave had a value. A convict could be replaced with ease.
The company’s survived without blame Able to hide behind pretended civility and an acceptance by all whites that “ Negros” were an inferior race.
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- David B
- 22-07-19
Worth sticking with
I thought after the first hour that this might be the first audible book I didn’t finish and would cancel, but so glad I stuck with it. A fascinating (and horrifying) light shone onto the racial history in the US that totally blows up any pretence that the emancipation changed the lot of African Americans, It really did take another 100 years to change much, and certainly makes me think more about the race situation now. An important book.
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- Chris
- 23-03-16
well researched and thought out book
Would you listen to Slavery by Another Name again? Why?
Yes, the book is such a great work of research and brutal honesty . the book almost stands by itself and would be a great reference point on the subject.
What was one of the most memorable moments of Slavery by Another Name?
A legal system was actually put in place to support this for something and only a World War was able to put an 'end' to it. The inhumanity brought about by a system, a Grand Mother in search of a grand some travelling miles just to free him for now wrong he did. How was that a thing one had to do, and that is a case of redemption and not of common place.
If you made a film of this book, what would be the tag line be?
False Hope
Any additional comments?
As someone outside the US, I cannot even being to imagine how hard it is for ethnic minorities(African Americans) in the US and particularly in the south. When I hear people/News anchors claiming 'White live matter', I now think of what an insult that is to history and how ignorant and dangerous the miss -direction is. The issue is so deep that being in denial seems like a place to be. What the book has shown is this must and should not be the case. Out int he open and at the highest level of debate is where this conversation should be; changing laws and acknowledging the hard truth about America, Slavery and how the rest of the work to some extent still operates so that the right decisions can be made pertaining issues of society.
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