Need to Know: The Re-Enslavement of Black People in America

Clearly my feeble classification system doesn't take into account everything I come across on the web and this is one such instance.
This is neither fascinating, crazy, or wow.

This is simply a fact of U.S. history that everyone should know...slavery continued to exist in the United States up until the engagement of the U.S. in World War II. The image to the left is of a young man being punished in a forced labor camp in Georgia in the 1930s!

A new book by award-winning journalist Douglas Blackmon uncovers the forgotten history of neo-slavery imposed on hundreds and thousands of African Americans that continued well after the Civil War and persisted right up to the 1940s. Using extensive archival sources, Blackmon uncovers the shameful system created to re-enslave African Americans. Under new laws, they were intimidated, arrested, charged with exorbitant fines, and then sold as forced laborers to corporations, mines and plantations or compelled into involuntary servitude.

Given the importance of this topic below are several resources for you to refer to for additional information. Both the Democracy Now and Talk of the Nation Programs links contain audio recordings of the programs.

Democracy Now Program from July 11, 2008
Talk of the Nation Program from March 25, 2008
http://www.slaverybyanothername.com/