![]() ![]() He won the 2009 Pulitzer Prize for general non-fiction for his book "Slavery by Another Name: The Re-enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II." He's Atlanta bureau chief of The Wall Street Journal, and his articles on race, wealth and other issues have been nominated for the Pulitzer Prize four times. Guest:ĭouglas Blackmon joins us from Atlanta, Georgia. ![]() ![]() Tell us what you think - here on this page, on Twitter, and on Facebook. This hour, On Point: History denied and revealed - American slavery by another name. Black men chained, whipped, and bound in forced labor until almost World War II. In an explosive work of investigative history that just won the Pulitzer Prize, a white son of Mississippi, Douglas Blackmon, has uncovered incredible virtual slavery that went on for decades after the Civil War. In fact, the history is much sorrier even than that. Jim Crow laws hemming in African-Americans. (Library of Congress from Americans think they know the sorry history of the post-Civil War South. ![]() Prisoners at work in a rock quarry, most likely in the early 1940s. Facebook Email This article is more than 13 years old. ![]()
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