Convict leasing, sharecropping, and domestic service are some of the ways that newly emancipated Blacks continued to face involuntary servitude after the Civil War. But Black people rose to the challenge. In this episode we discuss three ways the Civil War failed to end slavery AND four things Black people did about.
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SOURCES:
1. Davis, A.Y. Women, Race, & Class: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2011.
2. Oshinsky, David M. Worse Than Slavery: Parchman Farm and the Ordeal of Jim Crow Justice. New York: Free Press, 1996. Print.
3. Spearman, Darius. Between the Color Lines: A History of African Americans on the California Frontier from 1769 to 1890. Dubuque, Iowa Kendall Hunt Publishing Co., 1st ed.