James Steele’s Reviews > Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II > Status Update

The rising young men of Goodwater and Dadeville also were motivated by their understanding that unlike the long-ago era of full-scale slavery—in which their fathers gained almost nothing from richer white men’s ownership of slaves—the economic benefits of the new system of black forced labor were available to nearly every white man.