![]() ![]() ![]() Local law enforcement and officials were involved in the money games and not about to pursue prosecutions of those participating in unjust convictions.Ĭontrary to the congratulatory pronouncements that followed Georgia's "abolition" of the practice of selling black prisoners in 1908, the state had more forced labor slaves than ever by 1930. The justice system at the federal level was unwilling to pursue the issue of convictions. Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction." It's a story about gang labor and the failure of the Justice Department to prosecute violations of the rights of black men. ![]() This book won him a Pulitzer Prize.īlackmon writes of whites reaching for profits in farming, mining and other industrial endeavors by exploiting the labor of black men denied their freedom by trickery – by arrests on trumped up charges.īlackmon's critique extends from the exploitation of slaves during the Civil War to the beginning of World War II. As of this writing (March 2012) he is the Atlanta Bureau Chief of the Wall Street Journal. Blackmon (born 1964) grew up in the Mississippi Delta. ![]()
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