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Post-Civil War Slavery
Long after the Civil War's final shots were fired, hundreds of thousands of African-Americans were held captive and forced to work hard labor without compensation. Douglas Blackmon, the author of a new book, explains how "neoslavery" continued into the 1940s, and narrates a slide show of photographs from the era.
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Not Quite Emancipation
Although Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation in 1862, the brutality of slavery continued until the dawn of World War II, according to a new book by Douglas Blackmon, "Slavery by Another Name." Hundreds of thousands of African Americans were forced to work as servants in coal mines and lumber yards. A gallery of photos by John Spizack documents the brutal conditions they faced long after slavery in the United States had ostensibly come to an end.
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It's no coincidence that some people wind up covered in mosquito welts and others stay bite-free.
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