The Wheel of Servitude : Black Forced Labor after Slavery /
Novak, Daniel A.
The Wheel of Servitude : Black Forced Labor after Slavery / Daniel A. Novak. - Lexington : The University Press of Kentucky, (c)1978. - 1 online resource (145 pages)
Includes bibliographies and index.
Introduction -- 1. The Black Codes -- 2. The Freedmen's Bureau and the Army -- 3. Reconstruction Legislation -- 4. Redemption -- 5. Peonage and the Constitution -- 6. After Bailey -- 7. The Civil Rights Section -- Conclusion.
Emancipation brought an end to many of the evils of slavery, but it did not do away with involuntary servitude in the South. Even during Reconstruction, state legislatures passed laws that bound laborers to the landowner with a nearly unbreakable tie --
9780813164120
African Americans--Civil rights--Southern States.
African Americans--Economic conditions.--Southern States
Freed persons.
Working class--History.--Southern States
Electronic Books.
E185 / .W444 1978
The Wheel of Servitude : Black Forced Labor after Slavery / Daniel A. Novak. - Lexington : The University Press of Kentucky, (c)1978. - 1 online resource (145 pages)
Includes bibliographies and index.
Introduction -- 1. The Black Codes -- 2. The Freedmen's Bureau and the Army -- 3. Reconstruction Legislation -- 4. Redemption -- 5. Peonage and the Constitution -- 6. After Bailey -- 7. The Civil Rights Section -- Conclusion.
Emancipation brought an end to many of the evils of slavery, but it did not do away with involuntary servitude in the South. Even during Reconstruction, state legislatures passed laws that bound laborers to the landowner with a nearly unbreakable tie --
9780813164120
African Americans--Civil rights--Southern States.
African Americans--Economic conditions.--Southern States
Freed persons.
Working class--History.--Southern States
Electronic Books.
E185 / .W444 1978