A Pulitzer Prize-winning history of the mistreatment of black Americans. In this precise & 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 & personal narratives Blackmon unearths the lost stories of slaves & their descendants who journeyed into freedom after the Emancipation Proclamation & then back into the shadow of involuntary servitude thereafter. By turns moving sobering & shocking this unprecedented account reveals these stories the companies that profited the most from neoslavery & the insidious legacy of racism that reverberates today.