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Product Identifiers
PublisherUniversity of Illinois Press
ISBN-100252061462
ISBN-139780252061462
eBay Product ID (ePID)56681
Product Key Features
Book TitleShadow of Slavery : Peonage in the South, 1901-1969
Number of Pages240 Pages
LanguageEnglish
TopicUnited States / State & Local / South (Al, Ar, Fl, Ga, Ky, La, ms, Nc, SC, Tn, VA, WV), Labor, Ethnic Studies / African American Studies
Publication Year1990
IllustratorYes
GenreSocial Science, Business & Economics, History
AuthorPete R. Daniel
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height0.8 in
Item Weight13 Oz
Item Length9.2 in
Item Width7.3 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN90-034431
TitleLeadingThe
Dewey Edition18
Dewey Decimal331.5/42/0975
SynopsisWhether peonage in the South grew out of slavery, a natural and perhaps unavoidable interlude between bondage and freedom, or whether employers distorted laws and customs to create debt servitude, most Southerners quietly accepted peonage. To the employer it was a way to control laborers; to the peon it was a bewildering system that could not ......, Whether peonage in the South grew out of slavery, a natural and perhaps unavoidable interlude between bondage and freedom, or whether employers distorted laws and customs to create debt servitude, most Southerners quietly accepted peonage. To the employer it was a way to control laborers; to the peon it was a bewildering system that could not be escaped without risk of imprisonment, beating, or death. Pete Daniel's book is about this largely ignored form of twentieth-century slavery. It is in part "the record of an American failure, the inability of federal, state, and local law-enforcement officers to end peonage." In a series of case studies and histories, Daniel re-creates the neglected and frightening world of peonage, demanding, "If a form of slavery yet exists in the United States, as so much evidence suggests, then the relevant questions are why, and by whose irresponsibility?" Peonage grew out of labor settlements following emancipation, when employers forbade croppers to leave plantations because of debt (often less than $30). At the turn of the century the federal government acknowledged that the "labyrinth of local customs and laws" binding men in debt was peonage. They outlawed debt servitude and slowly moved against it, but with no large success. Disappearing witnesses and acquitted employers characterized the cases that did go to court. Daniel holds that peonage persists for many reasons: the corruption and apathy of law-enforcement, racist traditions in the South, and the impotence of the Justice Department in prosecuting this violation of federal law. He draws extensively on complaints and trial transcripts from the peonage records of the Justice Department.
LC Classification NumberHD4875.U5D3 1990
