This work describes conditions and forces the black population of the South faced after freedom was brought by the Civil War. As Sinclair puts it at the outset of his book, ". . . the chief efforts of Southern leadership have been to curtail the freedom of the colored people, to minimize their liberty and reduce them as nearly as possible to the condition of chattel slaves." - Summary by Jim Locke
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Chapters
- Chapter 1
Slavery and Its Abolition 1
34:21 - Chapter 2
Slavery and Its Abolition 2
36:22 - Chapter 3
Reconstruction and the Southern Black Code 1
38:52 - Chapter 4
Reconstruction and the Southern Black Code 2
37:35 - Chapter 5
Southern Opposition to Reconstruction 1
32:37 - Chapter 6
Southern Opposition to Reconstruction 2
33:26 - Chapter 7
The War on Negro Suffrage 1
48:32 - Chapter 8
The War on Negro Suffrage 2
45:45 - Chapter 9
The False Alarm of Negro Domination 1
31:38 - Chapter 10
The False Alarm of Negro Domination 2
31:57 - Chapter 11
The Negro in Politics 1
34:00 - Chapter 12
The Negro in Politics 2
33:44 - Chapter 13
The Negro and the Law 1
42:12 - Chapter 14
The Negro and the Law 2
43:33 - Chapter 15
The Rise and Achievements of the Colored Race 1
34:19 - Chapter 16
The Rise and Achievements of the Colored Race 2
32:33 - Chapter 17
The National Duty to the Negro 1
41:50 - Chapter 18
The National Duty to the Negro 2
41:32 - Chapter 19
Public Opinion Omnipotent 1
32:59 - Chapter 20
Public Opinion Omnipotent 2
28:42