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It exposes the legal and commercial machinery that extended slavery's realities.
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Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II
Douglas A. Blackmon2009 selection · Nonfiction
Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II
An investigation of forced labor systems that entrapped Black Americans long after constitutional emancipation.
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You want essential history of race, labor, and law.
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forced laborracismReconstructioncriminal justice
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