The Shadow of Slavery Peonage in the South, 1901-1969

by Pete R. Daniel

Whether peonage in the South grew out of slavery, a natural and perhaps unavoidable interlude between bondage and freedom, or whether employers distorted laws and customs to create debt servitude, most Southerners quietly accepted peonage. To the employer it was a way to control laborers; to the peon it was a bewildering system that could not be escaped without risk of imprisonment, beating, or death.

Pete Daniel's book is about this largely...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0252061462
• ISBN13: 9780252061462
• Release Date: September 1990
• Publisher: University of Illinois Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.99 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 8.9"