Slavery By Another Name: Author Douglas Blackmon on The Re-Enslavement of Black People in America

But a new book by Douglas Blackmon uncovers the forgotten history of neo-slavery imposed on hundreds and thousands of African-Americans that continued well after the Civil War and persisted right up to the 1940s. Using extensive archival sources Blackmon uncovers the shameful system created to re-enslave African-Americans.

Under new laws they were intimidated, arrested, charged with exorbitant fines, and then sold as forced laborers to corporations, mines, and plantations or compelled into involuntary servitude.

The book is called “Slavery By Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black People in America from the Civil War to World War II.” Author Douglas Blackmon is an award-winning journalist and also the Bureau Chief of the wall Street Journal in Atlanta. Douglas Blackmon joins us from Atlanta.

Douglas Blackmon, author of “Slavery By Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II.” He is also the bureau chief for the Wall Street Journal in Atlanta.

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