Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II

Douglas A. Blackmon explores the forced labour of prisoners, overwhelmingly African-American men, under the convict lease system used by states, local governments, white farmers and corporations in the southern United States from the end of the Civil War until the Second World War. He argues that slavery in the United States did not end with the Civil War but persisted well into the 20th century. The book grew out of his reporting for The Wall Street Journal on the history of American corporations.