Slavery by Another Name

Slavery by Another Name
Author: Douglas A. Blackmon
Publisher: Icon Books
Total Pages: 429
Release: 2012-10-04
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1848314132

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.

Cry from the Cotton

Cry from the Cotton
Author: Donald Grubbs
Publisher: University of Arkansas Press
Total Pages: 237
Release: 2000-07-01
Genre: History
ISBN: 1557285225

The Southern Tenant Farmers' Union was founded in eastern Arkansas in 1934 to protest the New Deal's enrichment of Southern cotton barons at the expense of suffering sharecroppers, both black and white. Their courageous struggle, in the face of determined and often violent resistance from their landlords, is the subject of this thorough study from Donald H. Grubbs, which was published to critical acclaim in 1971. Cry from the Cotton was the first full-scale look at the STFU and its leaders. It discloses that, although the union operated under noticeable socialist party sponsorship in its infancy, it drew much more upon the native Southern evangelical and populist traditions, much as the civil rights movement would do twenty-five years later. Grubbs convincingly demonstrates that while the STFU failed to gain immediate social justice for its members, it resulted in the formation of the Farm Security Administration, which even today continues to aid the rural poor, and it played a large part in forcing the formation of the La Follette Civil Liberties Committee, whose spotlight on management terrorism helped the CIO toward success. The volume stands as a classic on labor issues and class struggle and still echoes with the haunting plea of the dispossessed for equity.

Land and Liberty

Land and Liberty
Author: Thomas J. Humphrey
Publisher:
Total Pages: 191
Release: 2004
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780875803296

"In Land and Liberty, Thomas Humphrey recounts the story of the Hudson Valley land riots from the 1750s through the 1790s. He examines the social dimensions of the conflict, from individual landlord-tenant relations to cross-cultural alliances, in the context of colonial structure and Revolutionary politics. Humphrey offers a multilayered explanation of why inhabitants of the Hudson Valley resorted to extreme tactics - and why they achieved mixed results."--BOOK JACKET.

Landless Workers and Rice Farmers

Landless Workers and Rice Farmers
Author: Antonio J. Ledesma
Publisher: Int. Rice Res. Inst.
Total Pages: 227
Release: 1982
Genre: Agricultural laborers
ISBN: 9711040433

Perspectives from the household level; Agrarian reform in two villages; Implications for the Philippine agrarian reform program.

The Yale Review

The Yale Review
Author: George Park Fisher
Publisher:
Total Pages: 468
Release: 1894
Genre: American literature
ISBN:

The Other Civil War

The Other Civil War
Author: Howard Zinn
Publisher: Harper Collins
Total Pages: 162
Release: 2011-03-15
Genre: History
ISBN: 006207900X

The Other Civil War offers historian and activist Howard Zinn's view of the social and civil background of the American Civil War—a view that is rarely provided in standard historical texts. Drawn from his New York Times bestseller A People's History of the United States, this set of essays recounts the history of American labor, free and not free, in the years leading up to and during the Civil War. He offers an alternative yet necessary account of that terrible nation-defining epoch.

Texas, Cotton, And The New Deal

Texas, Cotton, And The New Deal
Author: Keith Joseph Volanto
Publisher: Texas A&M University Press
Total Pages: 232
Release: 2005
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9781585444021

Cotton growing-Government policy-Texas-Historly 2. Cotton trade-government policy-Texas-History. 3. New Deal1933-1939-Texas. 4. United States.

Law and the Rural Economy in the Roman Empire

Law and the Rural Economy in the Roman Empire
Author: Dennis P. Kehoe
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Total Pages: 292
Release: 2007-02-07
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780472115822

A bold application of economic theory to help provide an understanding of the role that law played in the development of the Roman economy