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The Shadow of Slavery: Peonage in the South, 1901-1969
Pete R. Daniel
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Description for The Shadow of Slavery: Peonage in the South, 1901-1969
Paperback. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: HBJK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 18. Weight in Grams: 400.
Whether peonage in the South grew out of slavery, a natural and perhaps unavoidable interlude between bondage and freedom, or whether employers distorted laws and customs to create debt servitude, most Southerners quietly accepted peonage. To the employer it was a way to control laborers; to the peon it was a bewildering system that could not be escaped without risk of imprisonment, beating, or death.
Pete Daniel's book is about this largely ignored form of twentieth-century slavery. It is in part "the record of an American failure, the inability of federal, state, and local law-enforcement officers to ... Read more
Whether peonage in the South grew out of slavery, a natural and perhaps unavoidable interlude between bondage and freedom, or whether employers distorted laws and customs to create debt servitude, most Southerners quietly accepted peonage. To the employer it was a way to control laborers; to the peon it was a bewildering system that could not be escaped without risk of imprisonment, beating, or death.
Pete Daniel's book is about this largely ignored form of twentieth-century slavery. It is in part "the record of an American failure, the inability of federal, state, and local law-enforcement officers to ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1990
Publisher
University of Illinois Press United States
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
Number of Pages
240
Place of Publication
Baltimore, United States
ISBN
9780252061462
SKU
V9780252061462
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About Pete R. Daniel
Pete Daniel is a public historian and past president of the Organization of American Historians. He is the author of Dispossession: Discrimination against African American Farmers in the Age of Civil Rights and Breaking the Land: The Transformation of Cotton, Tobacco, and Rice Cultures since 1880.
Reviews for The Shadow of Slavery: Peonage in the South, 1901-1969
"It is a scandal that historians have had to wait so long for such a serious and effective study of this important subject."
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