The Long Shadow of Slavery traces the unbroken line between America’s original system of forced labor and the modern poverty that still shapes millions of lives. Drawing on history, law, economics, and lived experience, the book shows how the logic of slavery—extractive, punitive, and profitable—was never dismantled. It was redesigned.
From Reconstruction to redlining, from convict leasing to the rise of low-wage work, the same machinery of exploitation reappears in new forms, each time justified by policy, culture, and convenience. What emerges is not a series of accidents, but a coherent system built to keep certain people poor and to make that poverty seem natural.
Written with clarity, restraint, and a deep understanding of how a nation’s founding logic continues to script its present, the book uncovers the deep structure beneath policy debates and political cycles—a structure designed to sort, to extract, and to justify. It argues that poverty is not a malfunction of the American project but one of its oldest operating principles.
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Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. The Long Shadow of Slavery traces the unbroken line between America's original system of forced labor and the modern poverty that still shapes millions of lives. Drawing on history, law, economics, and lived experience, the book shows how the logic of slavery-extractive, punitive, and profitable-was never dismantled. It was redesigned.From Reconstruction to redlining, from convict leasing to the rise of low-wage work, the same machinery of exploitation reappears in new forms, each time justified by policy, culture, and convenience. What emerges is not a series of accidents, but a coherent system built to keep certain people poor and to make that poverty seem natural.Written with clarity, restraint, and a deep understanding of how a nation's founding logic continues to script its present, the book uncovers the deep structure beneath policy debates and political cycles-a structure designed to sort, to extract, and to justify. It argues that poverty is not a malfunction of the American project but one of its oldest operating principles. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. Nº de ref. del artículo: 9798251861686
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Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. The Long Shadow of Slavery traces the unbroken line between America's original system of forced labor and the modern poverty that still shapes millions of lives. Drawing on history, law, economics, and lived experience, the book shows how the logic of slavery-extractive, punitive, and profitable-was never dismantled. It was redesigned.From Reconstruction to redlining, from convict leasing to the rise of low-wage work, the same machinery of exploitation reappears in new forms, each time justified by policy, culture, and convenience. What emerges is not a series of accidents, but a coherent system built to keep certain people poor and to make that poverty seem natural.Written with clarity, restraint, and a deep understanding of how a nation's founding logic continues to script its present, the book uncovers the deep structure beneath policy debates and political cycles-a structure designed to sort, to extract, and to justify. It argues that poverty is not a malfunction of the American project but one of its oldest operating principles. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability. Nº de ref. del artículo: 9798251861686
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