Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II | 
@TheSpineView 1. My reading goal was to read all the books on my bookshelf without getting library books our book purchases. I made it until March and justified book purchases as a way of helping the economy during the pandemic🤣🤣 #shoplocal 2. My adjustment was to read faster, haha!!!
pickAbsolutely incredible. So well researched and full of a history I had never been taught. I would recommend this book to anyone. It's a tough read as you learn about the history of convict leasing and other brutalities, but one which is important that we not hide from. I strongly encourage you to pick it up!
pickThis book took me four years to finish. It‘s fantastically researched and well written but it‘s contents are devastating. 100,000s of black Americans were held in bondage on the basis of false or trumped up charges and endured inhumane conditions and torture. This continued until WWII. I wish I‘d learned about it sooner. Maybe I would have been able to get through this faster. Still, I consider it absolutely essential reading.
This nonfiction is so devastating, it has me crying in my local coffee shop 😢 My only solace is that these stories are now being told more widely. I can think of at least two fiction books I read in the last year that tell stories about the convict “leasing” system that rebuilt the south after reconstruction (Sing, Unburied, Sing & Homegoing).
I won a scholarship for school, and at the awards banquet, they gave me an autographed copy of this book in addition to my certificate. Super excited to read it!
pickAn eye-opening history about how slavery continued in the U.S. South up until the end of WWII through convict leasing and other such practices.
I haven't finished my last library haul, but I got excited. Indianapolis does libraries best.
pickIf you want to understand today's headlines, you need to read this book. Slavery didn't end with the Civil War, the effects of the failure to free the slaves 150 years ago linger on.
If I needed evidence that my history classes left a lot out, this book is it. Tough read, heartbreaking.
"The South deluded itself with the illusion that the Negro was happy in his place; the North deluded itself with the illusion that it had freed the Negro. The Emancipation Proclamation freed the slave, a legal entity, but it failed to free the Negro, a person."
Eye-opening re: justice & US history!
