Winter 2025

Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II by Douglas A. Blackmon Anchor Books, 2009, 468 pp., $16.95 As the playwright and chronicler of twentieth-century African American life August Wilson recognized, …

In the midst of the Great Depression the American public was treated to a sudden outpouring of revelations about the horrors of the South’s most notorious penal institution, the chain gang. Even today, many people know the Warner Brothers 1932 …