The Wheel of Servitude : Black Forced Labor after Slavery /
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...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Lexington :
The University Press of Kentucky,
1978.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.