Format:
1 Online-Ressource (145 pages)
ISBN:
9780813164120
Content:
Emancipation brought an end to many of the evils of slavery, but it did not do away with involuntary servitude in the South. Even during Reconstruction, state legislatures passed laws that bound laborers to the landowner with a nearly unbreakable tie -- which still chains many a rural black to what a 1914 Supreme Court ruling called an ""ever-turning wheel of servitude.""Daniel Novak shows how federal, state, and local regulations combined in an undisguised effort to keep southern agriculture supplied with black labor. A freedman who did not immediately enter into a labor contract was subject
Note:
Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Foreword; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. The Black Codes; 2. The Freedmen's Bureau and the Army; 3. Reconstruction Legislation; 4. Redemption; 5. Peonage and the Constitution; 6. After Bailey; 7. The Civil Rights Section; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliographical Note; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780813154145
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe The Wheel of Servitude : Black Forced Labor after Slavery
Language:
English
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