![]() These men and women were then tried and convicted for these crimes, and given a fine. ![]() ![]() In the 1880s, Alabama, North Carolina, and Florida enacted laws making it a criminal act for a black man to change employers without permission.” (Blackmon, 53). Four other states legislated that African American could not legally be hired for work without a discharge paper from their previous employer- effectively preventing them from leaving the plantation of the white man they worked for. Some examples from the book: "an 1865 Mississippi statute required African American workers to enter into labor contacts with white farmers by January 1 of every year or risk arrest. Southern whites created civil laws that were strictly used to arrest black men and women. The shocking truth as to what happened to many southern black Americans after 1865 begins and ends in the criminal justice system. Blackmon, Atlanta Bureau Chief of the Wall Street Journal, will show you how slavery of African American men and women continued far into the 20th century. This Pulitzer Prize winning book, written by Douglas A. ![]() Slavery by Another Name blows that notion to smithereens. Many of us hold a similar belief- that slavery ended with the Civil War. ![]()
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