Slavery by Another Name

The Ugly Truth


Author spotlight
DOUGLAS A. BLACKMON is the Atlanta Bureau Chief of the Wall Street Journal.

He has written extensively on race, the economy, and American society.

Reared in the Mississippi Delta, he lives in downtown Atlanta with his wife and children.

Douglas Blackmon has provided another revealing chapter of history in America of Caucasians torturing.forcing.enslaving African Americans into servitude for their selfish gain.

It is the ugly past and to a degree a present status of the United States of America. It is just in another form; i.e., prison industrial complex.

In this groundbreaking historical exposé, Douglas A. Blackmon brings to light one of the most shameful chapters in American history—an “Age of Neoslavery” …

Based on a vast record of original documents and personal narratives, SLAVERY BY ANOTHER NAME 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.

It also reveals the stories of those who fought unsuccessfully against the re-emergence of human labor trafficking, the modern companies that profited most from neoslavery, and the system’s final demise in the 1940s, partly due to fears of enemy propaganda about American racial abuse at the beginning of World War II.

He was interviewed on June 20, 2008 by Bill Moyer on Bill Moyer’s Journal, the topic: Race in America. For more, go to:
Race in America - Bill Moyer


Below are photos from his book, Slavery by Another Name.

Anti-Slave Labor Pamphet, 1880s, Georgia
(Catechism - A Manual)


Convict Wagon, Nashville, Tennessee


Men in Cell, Birmingham, Alabama


Prison’s Stockade


Men in Cell, Birmingham, Alabama


Chain gang, Thomsville, Georgia


Man and woman slave


Punishment in a Forced Labor Camp, 1930s, Georgia










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