Bringing to light a shameful chapter in American history, a shocking study reveals how, from the late 1870s through the mid-twentieth century, thousands of African-American men were arrested and forced to work off the outrageous fines by serving as unpaid labor to small-town businesses, provincial farmers, and even large corporations.
Bringing to light a shameful chapter in American history, a shocking study reveals how, from the late 1870s through the mid-twentieth century, thousands of African-American men were arrested and forced to work off the outrageous fines by serving as unpaid labor to small-town businesses, provincial farmers, and even large corporations.
Table of Contents: A Note on Language Introduction: The Bricks We Stand On PART ONE: THE SLOW POISON I. THE WEDDING Fruits of Freedom II. AN INDUSTRIAL SLAVERY "Niggers is cheap." III. SLAVERY'S INCREASE "Day after day we looked Death in the face & was afraid to speak." IV. GREEN COTTENHAM'S WORLD "The negro dies faster" PART TWO: HARVEST OF AN UNFINISHED WAR V. THE SLAVE FARM OF JOHN PACE "I don't owe you anything." VI. SLAVERY IS NOT A CRIME "We shall have to kill a thousand...to get them back to their places." VII. THE INDICTMENTS "I was whipped nearly every day." VIII. A SUMMER OF TRIALS "The master treated the slave unmercifully." IX. A RIVER OF ANGER The South Is "an armed camp." X. THE DISAPPROBATION OF GOD "It is a very rare thing that a negro escapes." XI. SLAVERY AFFIRMED "Cheap cotton depends on cheap niggers." XII. NEW SOUTH RISING "This great corporation." PART THREE: THE FINAL CHAPTER OF AMERICAN SLAVERY XIII. THE ARREST OF GREEN COTTENHAM A War of Atrocities XIV. ANATOMY OF A SLAVE MINE "Degraded to a plane lower than the brutes." XV. EVERYWHERE WAS DEATH "Negro Quietly Swung Up by an Armed Mob...All is quiet." XVI. ATLANTA, THE SOUTH'S FINEST CITY "I will murder you if you don't do that work." XVII. FREEDOM "in the United States on cannot sell himself" EPILOGUE The Ephemera of Catastrophe Acknowledgments Notes Selected Bibliography Index
Table of Contents: A Note on Language Introduction: The Bricks We Stand On PART ONE: THE SLOW POISON I. THE WEDDING Fruits of Freedom II. AN INDUSTRIAL SLAVERY "Niggers is cheap." III. SLAVERY'S INCREASE "Day after day we looked Death in the face & was afraid to speak." IV. GREEN COTTENHAM'S WORLD "The negro dies faster" PART TWO: HARVEST OF AN UNFINISHED WAR V. THE SLAVE FARM OF JOHN PACE "I don't owe you anything." VI. SLAVERY IS NOT A CRIME "We shall have to kill a thousand...to get them back to their places." VII. THE INDICTMENTS "I was whipped nearly every day." VIII. A SUMMER OF TRIALS "The master treated the slave unmercifully." IX. A RIVER OF ANGER The South Is "an armed camp." X. THE DISAPPROBATION OF GOD "It is a very rare thing that a negro escapes." XI. SLAVERY AFFIRMED "Cheap cotton depends on cheap niggers." XII. NEW SOUTH RISING "This great corporation." PART THREE: THE FINAL CHAPTER OF AMERICAN SLAVERY XIII. THE ARREST OF GREEN COTTENHAM A War of Atrocities XIV. ANATOMY OF A SLAVE MINE "Degraded to a plane lower than the brutes." XV. EVERYWHERE WAS DEATH "Negro Quietly Swung Up by an Armed Mob...All is quiet." XVI. ATLANTA, THE SOUTH'S FINEST CITY "I will murder you if you don't do that work." XVII. FREEDOM "in the United States on cannot sell himself" EPILOGUE The Ephemera of Catastrophe Acknowledgments Notes Selected Bibliography Index
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