19th & 20th Century Neo-Slavery

While scanning African-American folk songs on YouTube, I encountered Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black People From the Civil War to World War II by Douglas Blackmon. This 2009 Pulitzer Prize winning book revealed so much about the wealth sources of many modern banks and corporations that it caused me to shudder but the facts contained therein are not surprising considering that America's exponential growth into a world power is directly attributable to human cargo converted into chattel.

Slavery by another name is slavery just the same. - Bettis

Blackmon's work is painstakingly detailed and he identifies the complicity of some well-known institutions in this travesty of justice which flourished until the advent of World War II. It's maddening to review this painful chapter of history but shouldn't we illuminate our dark closets so that our children won't stumble into similar crevices?