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Slavery by Another Name

Blackmon, Douglas A.

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Slavery by Another Name

DOUGLAS A. BLACKMON is the Atlanta Bureau Chief of the Wall Street Journal. He has written extensively on race, the economy, and American society. Reared in the Mississippi Delta, he lives in downtown Atlanta with his wife and children.

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Title of ebook: Slavery by Another Name
ISBN: 9780385506267
Publisher: Doubleday Publishing
Internet download file size: 1258 kb
Pages: 480
Released online for download: 03-25-2008
Author of eBook: Blackmon, Douglas A.

Slavery by Another Name

The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II
I
THE WEDDING

Fruits of Freedom

Freedom wasn’t yet three years old when the wedding day came. Henry Cottinham and Mary Bishop had been chattel slaves until the momentous final days of the Civil War, as nameless in the eyes of the law as cows in the field. All their lives, they could no more have obtained a marriage license than purchased a horse, a wagon, or a train ticket to freedom in the North. Then a final furious sweep of Union soldiers–in a bewildering blur of liberation and terror unleashed from a distant war–ravaged the Cahaba River valley.

Henry was suddenly a man. Mary was a woman, a slave girl no more. Here they stood, bride and groom, before John Wesley Starr, the coarse old preacher who a blink of an eye before had spent his Sundays teaching white people that slavery was the manifestation of a human order ordained by God, and preaching to black people that theirs was a glorified place among the chickens and the pigs.

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