The shadow of slavery: peonage in the South, 1901-1969 download epub

Whether peonage in the South grew out of slavery, a natural and perhaps unavoidable . Pete Daniel's book is about this largely ignored form of twentieth-century slavery

Whether peonage in the South grew out of slavery, a natural and perhaps unavoidable interlude between bondage and freedom, or whether employers distorted laws and customs to create debt servitude, most Southerners quietly accepted peonage. To the employer it was a way to control laborers; to the peon it was a bewildering system that could not be escaped without risk of imprisonment, beating, or death. Pete Daniel's book is about this largely ignored form of twentieth-century slavery.

The Shadow of Slavery book. Whether peonage in the South grew out of slavery, a natural and perhaps unavoidable interlude between bondage and freedom, or whether employers distorted laws and customs to create debt servitude, most Southerners quietly accepted peonage. The Shadow of Slavery argues that peonage has been an important and continuing theme in the history of postbellum southern labor. The Shadow of Slavery argues that peonage has been an important and. Few historians have incorporated involuntary servitude into their works, while those who have are divided over the importance of the subject and how it fits into the broader themes of southern labor history.

Pete Daniel's book is about this largely ignored form of twentieth-century slavery. It is in part "the record of an American failure, the inability of federal, state, and local law-enforcement officers to end peonage. Pete Daniel is a public historian and past president of the Organization of American Historians.

Whether peonage in the South grew out of slavery, a natural and perhaps unavoidable interlude between bondage and freedom, or whether employers distorted laws and customs to create debt servitude, most Southerners quietly accepted peonage

Whether peonage in the South grew out of slavery, a natural and perhaps unavoidable interlude between bondage and freedom, or whether employers distorted laws and customs to create debt servitude, most Southerners quietly accepted peonage.

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Whether peonage in the South grew out of slavery, a natural and perhaps unavoidable interlude between bondage .

Book Publishing WeChat. The Shadow of Slavery. Peonage in the South 1901-1969. New York, NY: Oxford University Press. AUTHORS: Robert Wasserstrom. JOURNAL NAME: Advances in Anthropology, Vo. N., March 22, 2017.

The Shadow of Slavery argues that peonage has been an important and continuing theme in the history of postbellum southern labor.

Pete Daniel is curator of the National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, . His books include The Shadow of Slavery: Peonage in the South, 1901-1969 and Breaking the Land: The Transformation of Cotton, Tobacco, and Rice Cultures since 1880. Page 1 of 1 Start overPage 1 of 1. This shopping feature will continue to load items. Lost Revolutions: The South in the 1950s.