Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II - Douglas A. Blackmon

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  Frank Hay
  July 21st, 2013
  

  A very biased view of American blacks which shows them as totally helpless. They can’t do anything because whitey is holding them down. Nonsense. They can go to community college and get a job just like the rest of us. I’m too busy working for a living to bother with holding anybody down.

  Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II - Douglas A. Blackmon
• 
  Dan
  August 20th, 2013
  

  Oh hey a racist in an internet comment section, who’d have thunk it!?

  Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II - Douglas A. Blackmon
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  Not Dan
  August 21st, 2016
  

  Frank didn’t say a single thing that was racist. He only stated that the author believes that black re incapable of doing anything without white people helping them. Very racist. Just s Frank stated, Black people aren’t helpless. While people with less power and money are have it harder. They aren’t incapable of success. Then institutional factors make it harder still in this capitalist republic.

  Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II - Douglas A. Blackmon
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  skay
  July 25th, 2019
  

  I look forward to finally reading/hearing this book. Though I must say, based on my own studies as a US history student, the experience of blacks in chattel slavery (which existed in the colonies and states for *two hundred* years!) was distinctly different than the experience of blacks in the era after Reconstruction was deconstructed, and beyond. I think that any claim that their experiences were the same, or became even worse under Jim Crow, fails to acknowledge the struggle for survival (familial, cultural, and individual survival) of all those who experienced the nightmare of chattel slavery in North America.

  To consider just one fact: there were racially-segregated, separate and unequal schools under Jim Crow in the South. But under the regime of chattel slavery, black children had no schools. Some slaves, like Frederick Douglas and Nat Turner, learned to read and write, but not by attending school, because there was no school available for them.

  Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II - Douglas A. Blackmon
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  ShiroNakatomi
  April 26th, 2020
  

  I have to disagree with the commenters this time.

  The author is right. Black are completely helpless.

  Have you ever seen the Vice Guide to Liberia?

  They tear down every vestige of civilization to a Hobbesian state of all against all.

  Also, they just stick. The negro funk ain’t no joke.

  So be a little more tolerant of the author, he right to point out how incredibly dumb and helpless this chattering brainless Dindus are.

  Not his fault these people don’t know how to swim.

  Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II - Douglas A. Blackmon

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