7/8/2023 0 Comments Slavery by another name author![]() during the 1960s in funneling funds between a wealthy northern white supremacist and segregationists fighting the Civil Rights Movement in the South. ![]() In 2000, the National Association of Black Journalists recognized Blackmon’s stories revealing the secret role of J.P. ![]() ![]() Blackmon, the Atlanta Bureau chief of the Wall Street Journal, has written about race and especially the interplay of wealth, corporate conduct, and segregation. In graphic and truthful detail, Blackmon’s powerful book reveals the widespread use of bonded labor after the Civil War-and how this amounted to a new form of slavery that incorporated many of the same inhuman conditions of brutal confinement like shackles, whippings, hog-tying. history that have been buried for decades. Blackmon’s new book, Slavery by Another Name – The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II (Doubleday, 2008) has unearthed ugly chapters of U.S. The views expressed by the author in this interview are, of course, his own, and he is not responsible for the views expressed elsewhere in this newspaper.ĭouglas A. We are publishing this interview courtesy of “Beneath the Surface” radio show hosted by Michael Slate on KPFK, Los Angeles. Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II ![]()
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