Log In
Or create an account ->
Imperial Library
Home
About
News
Upload
Forum
Help
Login/SignUp
Index
Cover
About the Author
Title Page
Dedication
CONTENTS
A NOTE ON LANGUAGE
INTRODUCTION: The Bricks We Stand On
Part 1
Chapter I - THE WEDDING: Fruits of Freedom
Chapter II - AN INDUSTRIAL SLAVERY: "Niggers is cheap."
Chapter III - SLAVERY’S INCREASE: "Day after day we looked Death in the face & was afraid to speak."
Chapter IV - GREEN COTTENHAM’S WORLD: "The negro dies faster. "
Part 2
Chapter V - THE SLAVE FARM OF JOHN PACE: "I don't owe you anything."
Chapter VI - SLAVERY IS NOT A CRIME: "We shall have to kill a thousand …to get them back to their places."
Chapter VII - THE INDICTMENTS: "I was whipped nearly every day."
Chapter VIII - A SUMMER OF TRIALS, 1903: "The master treated the slave unmercifully."
Chapter IX - A RIVER OF ANGER: The South Is "an armed camp."
Chapter X - THE DISAPPROBATION OF GOD: "It is a very rare thing that a negro escapes."
Chapter XI - SLAVERY AFFIRMED: "Cheap cotton depends on cheap niggers."
Chapter XII - NEW SOUTH RISING: "This great corporation."
Part 3
Chapter XIII - THE ARREST OF GREEN COTTENHAM: A War of Atrocities
Chapter XIV - ANATOMY OF A SLAVE MINE: "Degraded to a plane lower than the brutes."
Chapter XV - EVERYWHERE WAS DEATH: "Negro Quietly Swung Up by an Armed Mob …All is quiet."
Chapter XVI - ATLANTA, THE SOUTH’S FINEST CITY: "I will murder you if you don't do that work."
Chapter XVII - FREEDOM: "In the United States one cannot sell himself."
EPILOGUE: The Ephemera of Catastrophe
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
NOTES
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
Photography Credits
Copyright
← Prev
Back
Next →
← Prev
Back
Next →