What's up everyone,
Hope that the week has been going well so far!
It has been a little while since we've done a giveaway here from FuseBox Radio Broadcast, but we have a LOT lined up for the upcoming fall season.
This is one of the first giveaways that starting things up for folks...
We are giving away 4 copies of this great book, Slavery By Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II (now currently out on Doubleday Books) by author Douglas A. Blackmon.
Here is a mini-description of what the book Slavery By Another Name is about from its official website:
The Age of Neo-Slavery
In this groundbreaking historical expose, Douglas A. Blackmon brings to light one of the most shameful chapters in American history—when a cynical new form of slavery was resurrected from the ashes of the Civil War and re-imposed on hundreds of thousands of African-Americans until the dawn of World War II.
Under laws enacted specifically to intimidate blacks, tens of thousands of African Americans were arbitrarily arrested, hit with outrageous fines, and charged for the costs of their own arrests. With no means to pay these ostensible “debts,” prisoners were sold as forced laborers to coal mines, lumber camps, brickyards, railroads, quarries and farm plantations. Thousands of other African Americans were simply seized by southern landowners and compelled into years of involuntary servitude. Government officials leased falsely imprisoned blacks to small-town entrepreneurs, provincial farmers, and dozens of corporations—including U.S. Steel Corp.—looking for cheap and abundant labor. Armies of "free" black men labored without compensation, were repeatedly bought and sold, and were forced through beatings and physical torture to do the bidding of white masters for decades after the official abolition of American slavery.
The neoslavery system exploited legal loopholes and federal policies which discouraged prosecution of whites for continuing to hold black workers against their wills. As it poured millions of dollars into southern government treasuries, the new slavery also became a key instrument in the terrorization of African Americans seeking full participation in the U.S. political system.
Based on a vast record of original documents and personal narratives, Slavery By Another Name 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. It also reveals the stories of those who fought unsuccessfully against the re-emergence of human labor trafficking, the modern companies that profited most from neoslavery, and the system’s final demise in the 1940s, partly due to fears of enemy propaganda about American racial abuse at the beginning of World War II.
Slavery By Another Name is a moving, sobering account of a little-known crime against African Americans, and the insidious legacy of racism that reverberates today.
All you have to do to enter the contest is to send an e-mail out to blackradioisback@gmail.com with the subject header "Slavery By Another Name Book Contest" by September 1, 2008.
The four winners will be randomly selected by the BlackRadioIsBack.com and FuseBox Radio Broadcast staff.
Good luck to everyone who enters in!
Slavery By Another Name Official Book Website
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