Book of Donmon Teith

"Ballagh characterized these labor agreements as nothing short of slavery." -Escaping Servitude (2014) "Ballagh went on to explain...black slavery replaced whit

Emancipation brought an end to many of the evils of slavery, but it did not do away with involuntary servitude in the South. Even during Reconstruction, state l

Whether peonage in the South grew out of slavery, a natural and perhaps unavoidable interlude between bondage and freedom, or whether employers distorted laws a