And the consequences of even the most trivial of offenses were enormous. It was almost impossible for a black man in the South, in the rural South, in the early 20th century not to be at risk of arrest at almost any time. And there were rafts of laws that effectively criminalized black life. But by the time Green Cottenham grew to adulthood in the first years of the 20th century, this whole new regime of laws had been put in place that essentially turned the American justice system on its head.Īnd it became an instrument of injustice, instead of a system of justice. They were largely still impoverished, but authentic freedom, separating themselves from the white families that had controlled their lives. They had a certain amount of economic freedom. He experienced some of the - some of that period of time in which you had huge numbers of black people who voted. Blackmon's book tells the unfamiliar story of 'neo-slavery' that reached. Green Cottenham was the son of two former slaves in Alabama. Blackmon, Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II tags: civil-rights-movement, reconstruction, slavery Read more quotes from Douglas A. Journalist Douglas Blackmon tells another tale of freedom postponed and denied in SLAVERY BY ANOTHER NAME.
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