Slavery by Another Name For most Americans, especially African Americans, the abolition of slavery in 1865 was a significant point in history, but for African Americans, although the slavery was abolished, giving rise to a new form of slavery that proved equally terrifying to blacks. In the novel Slavery by Another Name, by Douglas Blackmon, he examines the Reconstruction era, which featured a form of forced labor in a convict leasing system, in which many African Americans were convicted for decades on triumphant charges. The convict leasing system began because after the Civil War and the passage of the Thirteenth Amendment, which abolished slavery, poor states had to deal with the addition of African Americans living freely in society but also with criminals black. Before the Reconstruction era, slaveholders were responsible for punishing criminals, and they always did so in private. Due to the unknown effects on the economy, this has caused the cost of criminal justice to skyrocket, leaving the state government desperate for a solution to reduce costs....