Author:
Blackmon, Douglas A.
Edition Statement:1st ed.
Imprint:New York : Doubleday, 2008.
Descriptionx, 468 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Note:A note on language -- Introduction : The bricks we stand on -- pt. 1. The slow poison -- 1. The wedding : fruits of freedom -- 2. An industrial slavery : "Niggers is cheap" -- 3. Slavery's increase : "Day after day we looked death in the face & was afraid to speak" -- 4. Green Cottenham's world : "The negro dies faster" -- pt. 2. Harvest of an unfinished war -- 5. The slave farm of John Pace : "I don't owe you anything" -- 6. Slavery is not a crime : "We shall have to kill a thousand... to get them back to their places" -- 7. The indictments : "I was whipped nearly every day" -- 8. A summer of trials, 1903 : "The master treated the slave unmercifully" -- 9. A river of anger : the South is "an armed camp" -- 10. The disapprobation of God : "It is a very rare thing that a negro escapes" -- 11. New South rising : "This great corporation" --pt. 3. The final chapter of American slavery -- 13. The arrest of Green Cottenham : a war of atrocities -- 14. Anatomy of a slave mine : "Degraded to a plane lower than the brutes" -- 15. Everywhere was death : "Negro quietly swung up by an armed mob... all is quiet" -- 16. Atlanta, the South's finest city : "I will murder you if you don't do that work" -- 17. Freedom : "In the United States one cannot sell himself" -- Epilogue : The ephemera of catastrophe -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Selected bibliography -- Index.
Note: AwardsPulitzer Prize in General Nonfiction, 2009.
