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2) Slavery by another name: the re-enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II
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Pub. Date
2009
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A sobering account of a little-known crime against African Americans, and the insidious legacy of racism that reverberates today. --From publisher description.
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Campaigns and commanders volume 38
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[2013]
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"Some 37,000 soldiers from six German principalities, collectively remembered as Hessians, entered service as British auxiliaries in the American War of Independence. At times, they constituted a third of the British army in North America, and thousands of them were imprisoned by the Americans. Despite the importance of Germans in the British war effort, historians have largely overlooked these men. Drawing on research in German military records and...
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Pub. Date
[2008]
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A sobering account of a little-known crime against African Americans, and the insidious legacy of racism that reverberates today. From the aftermath of the Civil War through the dawn of World War II, under laws enacted specifically to intimidate blacks, tens of thousands of African Americans were arbitrarily arrested, hit with outrageous fines, and charged for the costs of their own arrests. With no means to pay these "debts," prisoners were sold...