Slavery by Another Name

Slavery by Another Name
Title Slavery by Another Name PDF eBook
Author Douglas A. Blackmon
Publisher Icon Books
Pages 429
Release 2012-10-04
Genre Social Science
ISBN 1848314132

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A Pulitzer Prize-winning history of the mistreatment of black Americans. In this 'precise and eloquent work' - as described in its Pulitzer Prize citation - Douglas A. Blackmon brings to light one of the most shameful chapters in American history - an 'Age of Neoslavery' that thrived in the aftermath of the Civil War through the dawn of World War II. Using a vast record of original documents and personal narratives, Blackmon unearths the lost stories of slaves and their descendants who journeyed into freedom after the Emancipation Proclamation and then back into the shadow of involuntary servitude thereafter. By turns moving, sobering and shocking, this unprecedented account reveals these stories, the companies that profited the most from neoslavery, and the insidious legacy of racism that reverberates today.

Sharecropper’s Troubadour

Sharecropper’s Troubadour
Title Sharecropper’s Troubadour PDF eBook
Author M. Honey
Publisher Springer
Pages 233
Release 2013-11-19
Genre History
ISBN 1137088362

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Folk singer and labor organizer John Handcox was born to illiterate sharecroppers, but went on to become one of the most beloved folk singers of the prewar labor movement. This beautifully told oral history gives us Handcox in his own words, recounting a journey that began in the Deep South and went on to shape the labor music tradition.

A Cajun Girl's Sharecropping Years

A Cajun Girl's Sharecropping Years
Title A Cajun Girl's Sharecropping Years PDF eBook
Author Viola Fontenot
Publisher Univ. Press of Mississippi
Pages 131
Release 2018-07-05
Genre Biography & Autobiography
ISBN 1496817109

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Winner of the 2019 Humanities Book of the Year from the Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities Today sharecropping is history, though during World War II and the Great Depression sharecropping was prevalent in Louisiana's southern parishes. Sharecroppers rented farmland and often a small house, agreeing to pay a one-third share of all profit from the sale of crops grown on the land. Sharecropping shaped Louisiana's rich cultural history, and while there have been books published about sharecropping, they share a predominately male perspective. In A Cajun Girl's Sharecropping Years, Viola Fontenot adds the female voice into the story of sharecropping. Spanning from 1937 to 1955, Fontenot describes her life as the daughter of a sharecropper in Church Point, Louisiana, including details of field work as well as the domestic arts and Cajun culture. The account begins with stories from early life, where the family lived off a gravel road near the woods without electricity, running water, or bathrooms, and a mule-drawn wagon was the only means of transportation. To gently introduce the reader to her native language, the author often includes French words along with a succinct definition. This becomes an important part of the story as Fontenot attends primary school, where she experienced prejudice for speaking French, a forbidden and punishable act. Descriptions of Fontenot's teenage years include stories of going to the boucherie; canning blackberries, figs, and pumpkins; using the wood stove to cook dinner; washing and ironing laundry; and making moss mattresses. Also included in the texts are explanations of rural Cajun holiday traditions, courting customs, leisure activities, children's games, and Saturday night house dances for family and neighbors, the fais do-do.

Sharecropping and Sharecroppers

Sharecropping and Sharecroppers
Title Sharecropping and Sharecroppers PDF eBook
Author T. J. Byres
Publisher Routledge
Pages 298
Release 2005-08-02
Genre History
ISBN 113578003X

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First Published in 1983. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

The Origins of Southern Sharecropping

The Origins of Southern Sharecropping
Title The Origins of Southern Sharecropping PDF eBook
Author Edward Royce
Publisher Temple University Press
Pages 289
Release 2010-05-05
Genre Business & Economics
ISBN 1439904383

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Revised perspective on sharecropping.

Osceola

Osceola
Title Osceola PDF eBook
Author Osceola Mays
Publisher Hyperion Books
Pages 70
Release 2000
Genre Biography & Autobiography
ISBN

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A sharecropper's daughter describes her childhood in Texas in the early years of the twentieth century.

Revolt Among the Sharecroppers

Revolt Among the Sharecroppers
Title Revolt Among the Sharecroppers PDF eBook
Author Howard Kester
Publisher Univ Tennessee Press
Pages 164
Release 1936
Genre Business & Economics
ISBN 9780870499753

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This paperback facsimile edition restores to print Howard Kester's Revolt among the Sharecroppers, a lost classic of southern radicalism. First published in 1936, Kester's brief, stirring book provides a dramatic eyewitness account of the origins of the Southern Tenant Farmers' Union (STFU), the Arkansas Delta sharecroppers' organization whose cause was championed by religious radicals and socialists during the 1930s. Accompanying Kester's original text is a substantial new introductory essay by historian Alex Lichtenstein. This edition will introduce general readers, scholars, and students to a social movement with significant historical implications. In its commitment to interracialism, the STFU challenged long-standing southern traditions. In its hostility to the agricultural recovery programs of the 1930s (which tended to benefit landowners at the expense of tenant farmers), the union offered an early critique of New Deal liberalism. And, finally, in its insistence that the dispossessed could assume control of their own destiny, the STFU foreshadowed the progressive social movements of the 1960s. Thus, Revolt among the Sharecroppers is an important primary document that makes a signal contribution to our understanding of southern history, labor history, African American history, and the history of Depression-era America. Kester's text recounts the early history of the STFU and its criticisms of the New Deal in compelling, accessible prose. Lichtenstein's introduction offers biographical background on Kester, explores the religious and socialist beliefs that led him to work with the STFU, describes the racial and social climate that shaped the union's emergence, places the union'srise and decline within the context of 1930s politics, and outlines the legacy of this remarkable organization.