The mortality rate was as high as 30-40% or more. Moreover, the brutality imposed on "prisoners" in the last part of the 19th and first half of the 20th century was identical to that used against slaves prior to the Civil War. Slavery by Another Name: Paperback Edition (Autographed) quantity. Blackmon brings to light one of the most shameful chapters in American historyan Age of Neoslavery that thrived from the aftermath of the Civil War through the dawn of World War II. A form of "industrial slavery", these purported convicts, who worked on month-to-month leases, were used and disposed of at will. In this groundbreaking historical expose, Douglas A. "Convict leasing" became "Slavery by Another Name", coercing African American "convicts" to work on chain-gangs and for major corporations. He won the Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction for Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II. African Americans were systematically charged for petty crimes, and sentenced to hard labor working for former white slave owners. Blackmon is an American writer and a Pulitzer Prize winner. "Slavery by Another Name" documents how thousands of African Americans were pulled back into forced labor with shocking force and brutality, sanctioned by the judicial and legislative system, and propelled by the loss of slave labor after the Civil War. This 90-minute PBS documentary, based upon the 2009 Pulitzer Prize-winning book by Douglas Blackmon, eviscerates one of America's most cherished myths: the belief that slavery ended with the Emancipation Proclamation of 1863.
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