Do you know about peonage?

In his famous quote, William Shakespeare asserted that, "A rose by any other name would smell as sweet." What is true of roses is true of all else. For, it is the character of the thing that defines it, not the name.

In his book entitled, Slavery By Another Name, historian Douglas Blackmon reveals a little known part of the American story; a new form of slavery that followed the civil war and lasted well into the twentieth century.