From Slavery To Sharecropping

Author : Douglas A. Blackmon
Publisher : Icon Books
Page : 429 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2012-10-04
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781848314139

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Slavery by Another Name by Douglas A. Blackmon Pdf

A Pulitzer Prize-winning history of the mistreatment of black Americans. In this 'precise and eloquent work' - as described in its Pulitzer Prize citation - Douglas A. Blackmon brings to light one of the most shameful chapters in American history - an 'Age of Neoslavery' that thrived in the aftermath of the Civil War through the dawn of World War II. Using a vast record of original documents and personal narratives, Blackmon unearths the lost stories of slaves and their descendants who journeyed into freedom after the Emancipation Proclamation and then back into the shadow of involuntary servitude thereafter. By turns moving, sobering and shocking, this unprecedented account reveals these stories, the companies that profited the most from neoslavery, and the insidious legacy of racism that reverberates today.

Author : Edward Royce
Publisher : Temple University Press
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1993-10-20
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781566390699

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The Origins of Southern Sharecropping by Edward Royce Pdf

Revised perspective on sharecropping

Author : Donald G. Nieman
Publisher : Articles-Garlan
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : STANFORD:36105003463788

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From Slavery to Sharecropping by Donald G. Nieman Pdf

Author : Ronald L. F. Davis
Publisher : Praeger
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1982-07-16
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105037392896

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Good and Faithful Labor by Ronald L. F. Davis Pdf

Author : M. Honey
Publisher : Springer
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2013-11-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9781137088369

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Sharecropper’s Troubadour by M. Honey Pdf

Folk singer and labor organizer John Handcox was born to illiterate sharecroppers, but went on to become one of the most beloved folk singers of the prewar labor movement. This beautifully told oral history gives us Handcox in his own words, recounting a journey that began in the Deep South and went on to shape the labor music tradition.

Author : Howard Kester
Publisher : Univ Tennessee Press
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1936
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0870499750

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Revolt Among the Sharecroppers by Howard Kester Pdf

This paperback facsimile edition restores to print Howard Kester's Revolt among the Sharecroppers, a lost classic of southern radicalism. First published in 1936, Kester's brief, stirring book provides a dramatic eyewitness account of the origins of the Southern Tenant Farmers' Union (STFU), the Arkansas Delta sharecroppers' organization whose cause was championed by religious radicals and socialists during the 1930s. Accompanying Kester's original text is a substantial new introductory essay by historian Alex Lichtenstein. This edition will introduce general readers, scholars, and students to a social movement with significant historical implications. In its commitment to interracialism, the STFU challenged long-standing southern traditions. In its hostility to the agricultural recovery programs of the 1930s (which tended to benefit landowners at the expense of tenant farmers), the union offered an early critique of New Deal liberalism. And, finally, in its insistence that the dispossessed could assume control of their own destiny, the STFU foreshadowed the progressive social movements of the 1960s. Thus, Revolt among the Sharecroppers is an important primary document that makes a signal contribution to our understanding of southern history, labor history, African American history, and the history of Depression-era America. Kester's text recounts the early history of the STFU and its criticisms of the New Deal in compelling, accessible prose. Lichtenstein's introduction offers biographical background on Kester, explores the religious and socialist beliefs that led him to work with the STFU, describes the racial and social climate that shaped the union's emergence, places the union'srise and decline within the context of 1930s politics, and outlines the legacy of this remarkable organization.

Author : Hamilton Wilcox Pierson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 44 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1870
Category : Ku Klux Klan (19th century)
ISBN : NYPL:33433108513528

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A Letter to Hon. Charles Sumner, with "statements" of Outrages Upon Freedmen in Georgia, and an Account of My Expulsion from Andersonville, Ga., by the Ku-Klux Klan by Hamilton Wilcox Pierson Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 968 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : African Americans
ISBN : 0521132134

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Freedom by Anonim Pdf

Author : Richard S. Dunn
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 553 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2014-11-04
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780674735361

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A Tale of Two Plantations by Richard S. Dunn Pdf

Richard Dunn reconstructs the lives of three generations of slaves on a sugar estate in Jamaica and a plantation in Virginia, to understand the starkly different forms slavery took. Deadly work regimens and rampant disease among Jamaican slaves contrast with population expansion in Virginia leading to the selling of slaves and breakup of families.

Author : Roger L. Ransom,Richard Sutch
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 492 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2001-07-16
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0521795508

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One Kind of Freedom by Roger L. Ransom,Richard Sutch Pdf

This edition of the economic history classic One Kind of Freedom reprints the entire text of the first edition together with an introduction by the authors and an extensive bibliography of works in Southern history published since the appearance of the first edition. The book examines the economic institutions that replaced slavery and the conditions under which ex-slaves were allowed to enter the economic life of the United States following the Civil War. The authors contend that although the kind of freedom permitted to black Americans allowed substantial increases in their economic welfare, it effectively curtailed further black advancement and retarded Southern economic development. Quantitative data are used to describe the historical setting but also shape the authors' economic analysis and test the appropriateness of their interpretations. Ransom and Sutch's revised findings enrich the picture of the era and offer directions for future research.

Author : David M. Oshinsky
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1997-04-22
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781439107744

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Worse Than Slavery by David M. Oshinsky Pdf

In this sensitively told tale of suffering, brutality, and inhumanity, Worse Than Slavery is an epic history of race and punishment in the deepest South from emancipation to the Civil Rights Era—and beyond. Immortalized in blues songs and movies like Cool Hand Luke and The Defiant Ones, Mississippi’s infamous Parchman State Penitentiary was, in the pre-civil rights south, synonymous with cruelty. Now, noted historian David Oshinsky gives us the true story of the notorious prison, drawing on police records, prison documents, folklore, blues songs, and oral history, from the days of cotton-field chain gangs to the 1960s, when Parchman was used to break the wills of civil rights workers who journeyed south on Freedom Rides.

Author : Theodore Rosengarten
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 610 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2018-07-31
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780525562856

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All God's Dangers by Theodore Rosengarten Pdf

Nate Shaw's father was born under slavery. Nate Shaw was born into a bondage that was only a little gentler. At the age of nine, he was picking cotton for thirty-five cents an hour. At the age of forty-seven, he faced down a crowd of white deputies who had come to confiscate a neighbor's crop. His defiance cost him twelve years in prison. This triumphant autobiography, assembled from the eighty-four-year-old Shaw's oral reminiscences, is the plain-spoken story of an “over-average” man who witnessed wrenching changes in the lives of Southern black people—and whose unassuming courage helped bring those changes about.

Author : Willie Lee Rose
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1998-08-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0820320617

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Rehearsal for Reconstruction by Willie Lee Rose Pdf

Just seven months into the Civil War, a Union fleet sailed into South Carolina’s Port Royal Sound, landed a ground force, and then made its way upriver to Beaufort. Planters and farmers fled before their attackers, allowing virtually all their major possessions, including ten thousand slaves, to fall into Union hands. Rehearsal for Reconstruction, winner of the Allan Nevins Prize, the Francis Parkman Prize, and the Charles S. Sydnor Prize, is historian Willie Lee Rose’s chronicle of change in this Sea Island region from its capture in 1861 through Reconstruction. With epic sweep, Rose demonstrates how Port Royal constituted a stage upon which a dress rehearsal for the South’s postwar era was acted out.

Author : William S. Kiser
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2017-05-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9780812249033

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Borderlands of Slavery by William S. Kiser Pdf

Borderlands of Slavery explores how the existence of two involuntary labor systems—Mexican peonage and Indian captivity—in the nineteenth-century Southwest impacted the transformation of America's judicial and political institutions during the antebellum, Civil War, and Reconstruction eras.

Author : Osceola Mays
Publisher : Hyperion Books
Page : 70 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : STANFORD:36105110141426

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Osceola by Osceola Mays Pdf

A sharecropper's daughter describes her childhood in Texas in the early years of the twentieth century.