![]() In 2009, it was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction. ![]() The resulting book was well received by critics and became a New York Times Best Seller. Seeing the popular response to the article, he began conducting research for a more comprehensive exploration of the topic. Slavery by Another Name began as an article which Blackmon wrote for The Wall Street Journal detailing the use of black forced labor by U.S. ![]() It depicts the subjugation of convict leasing, sharecropping and peonage and tells the fate of the former but not of the latter two. Blackmon argues that slavery in the United States did not end with the Civil War, but instead persisted well into the 20th century. It explores the forced labor of prisoners, overwhelmingly African American men, through the convict lease system used by states, local governments, white farmers, and corporations after the American Civil War until World War II in the southern United States. Blackmon, published by Anchor Books in 2008. Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II is a book by American writer Douglas A. ![]()
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