In 1863, Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation. Two years later, the Thirteenth Amendment abolished slavery and prohibited involuntary servitude. But as Douglas Blackmon shows in his powerful book, Slavery by Another Name, unfree labor did not disappear at the end of the Civil War. Instead, it took on a new, pernicious form.
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Tom Sugrue |
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FDL Book Salon Welcomes Douglas A. Blackmon, Slavery By Another Name |
| By: Tom Sugrue Sunday August 16, 2009 2:00 pm |


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