The Wheel of Servitude: Black Forced Labor After Slavery by Novak, Daniel A.

The Wheel of Servitude: Black Forced Labor After Slavery (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780813154145)

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The Wheel of Servitude: Black Forced Labor After Slavery by Novak, Daniel A.

The Wheel of Servitude: Black Forced Labor After Slavery

$15.00
The Wheel of Servitude: Black Forced Labor After Slavery by Novak, Daniel A.

The Wheel of Servitude: Black Forced Labor After Slavery

$15.00
Format: Paperback
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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-which still chains many a rural black to what a 1914 Supreme Court ruling called an ""ever-turning wheel of servitude."" Daniel Novak shows how federal, state, and local regulations combined in an undisguised effort to keep southern agriculture suppl

Author: Daniel A. Novak
ISBN-10: 0813154146
ISBN-13: 9780813154145
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Language: English
Published: 07/15/2014
Pages: 144
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.43lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.34d
By Daniel A. Novak
By Daniel A. Novak
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Daniel Novak is assistant professor of political science at State University of New York, Buffalo.

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