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Focus (Forum & Focus)

Jan. 24, 2009

Southern Discomfort

"Slavery by Another Name" takes readers through the tangled web of Southern capitalism and the vicious treatment of African Americans after the Civil War, writes Elaine Elinson. - Book Review

BOOK REVIEW

By Elaine Elinson

Green Cottenham was born to former slaves who married just after the Emancipation Proclamation. But when the young man was arrested for "vagrancy" at an Alabama railroad station he was forced into slave labor in a coal mine owned by U.S. Steel. Doug Blackmon pieces together the story of Cottenham's life to illuminate the fate of tens of thousands of African Americans, arrested for the "offense of blackness" and enslav...

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