The Wheel of Servitude : Black Forced Labor after Slavery /

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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...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Novak, Daniel A.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Lexington : The University Press of Kentucky, 1978.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Working class.
Freed persons.
African Americans > Economic conditions.
African Americans > Civil rights.
HISTORY > United States > State & Local > South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV)
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Labor & Industrial Relations.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Labor.
Travailleurs > États-Unis (Sud) > Histoire.
Affranchis.
Noirs americains > États-Unis (Sud) > Conditions economiques.
Noirs americains > Droits > États-Unis (Sud)
Working class > Southern States > History.
African Americans > Southern States > Economic conditions.
African Americans > Civil rights > Southern States.
Southern States.
History.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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