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The New York Times praised Communist Party reporter John L.
Spivak's shocking 1932 novel Georgia Nigger as having "the weight
and authority of a sociological investigation." This Southern
Classics edition makes Spivak's narrative available to modern
readers, augmented with a new introduction by David A. Davis as
well as additional documents Spivak gathered during his
investigation into the abuses of the Depression-era Southern prison
system.
Georgia Nigger exposes the institutionalized system of
sharecropping, debt peonage, and exorbitant chain gang sentences
that trapped many southern black men in a cycle of labor
exploitation. Spivak (1897-1981) gained unlikely access to chain
gangs through the Georgia Prison Commission, and his book combines
elements of muckraking reportage and proletarian fiction to offer a
sensational and damning case for prison reform.
The plot follows David Jackson, the son of black sharecroppers, who
is released from a chain gang then almost immediately re-arrested
and bound over to a white planter as a peon. Jackson escapes
peonage only to be arrested again as a vagrant and sentenced to
another chain gang. He tries to escape again with the help of an
older inmate, but they are both captured and suffer torturous
punishments. Spivak's novel has merit both as revealing historical
account of sharecropping and chain gangs and as a compelling
literary allegory of an individual confronted by sweeping social
forces.
For Depression-era readers, Georgia Nigger provided outrage beyond
its obvious depictions of inhumanity and torture. The book hinges
on the crime of vagrancy, a charge often used to force into labor
persons without obvious means of income. In this particular
arrangement, being unemployed was a crime in itself, which allowed
for the exploitation of the economically vulnerable. Like many
writers and intellectuals of his era, Spivak sought to expose the
abuses committed against the nation's most impoverished. His book
combines elements of labor rabble-rousing, radical fiction, and
documentary photography to depict the lives of black Southerners
and to indict a flawed system of labor and justice.
This is a new release of the original 1939 edition.
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Within recent years new forces have swept over great nations,
crashing against the established order and, in some cases,
obliterating it. The old forces, which survived the centuries, are
struggling desperately to maintain themselves against the tides
sweeping in from several different seas. In country after country,
the old form of democratic government has been supplanted by the
new order called Fascism. In many countries where Fascism has not
been victorious, powerful movements are under way to establish it
and equally powerful movements are struggling bitterly to prevent
it. Millions of earnest and honest citizens, tired of the
disordered state of economic and political affairs, have turned to
Fascism as the only obstacle to prevent the disintegration of what
we know as civilization and a resultant chaos. Other equally
earnest and honest citizens regard this new order as the most
intolerable form of government imaginable and are fighting this new
force with all the energy they can muster, as in France and in
Spain. There the anti-Fascist forces developed tremendous power by
uniting with their own political enemies to save themselves and
their countries from Fascism.
This book (hardcover) is part of the TREDITION CLASSICS. It
contains classical literature works from over two thousand years.
Most of these titles have been out of print and off the bookstore
shelves for decades. The book series is intended to preserve the
cultural legacy and to promote the timeless works of classical
literature. Readers of a TREDITION CLASSICS book support the
mission to save many of the amazing works of world literature from
oblivion. With this series, tredition intends to make thousands of
international literature classics available in printed format again
- worldwide.
This book is part of the TREDITION CLASSICS. It contains classical
literature works from over two thousand years. Most of these titles
have been out of print and off the bookstore shelves for decades.
The book series is intended to preserve the cultural legacy and to
promote the timeless works of classical literature. Readers of a
TREDITION CLASSICS book support the mission to save many of the
amazing works of world literature from oblivion. With this series,
tredition intends to make thousands of international literature
classics available in printed format again - worldwide.
The material in this small volume just barely scratches the surface
of a problem which is becoming increasingly grave: the activities
of Nazi agents in the United States, Mexico, and Central America.
During the years John Spivak observed some of them, watching the
original, crudely organized and directed propaganda machine
develop, grow and leave an influence for wider than most people
seem to realize. What at first appeared to be merely a distasteful
attempt by Nazi Government officials at direct interference in the
affairs of the American people and their Government, has now
assumed the more sinister aspect of also seeking American naval and
military secrets. Further studies in Central America, Mexico and
the Panama Canal Zone disclosed an espionage network directed by
the Rome-Berlin-Tokyo axis and operating against the peace and
security of the United States. A scrutiny of the Nazi Fifth Column
in a few European countries, especially in Czechoslovakia just
before that Republic was turned over to Germany's mercy by the
Munich "peach" and in France where Nazi and Italian agents build an
amazing secret underground army, has made the fascist activities in
the Western Hemisphere somewhat clearer. Included in one chapter
are detailed events which cannot, as far as the author is able to
discover, be traced to Nazi espionage; but it shows the influence
of Nazi ideology upon England's now notorious "Cliveden set," which
maneuvered the betrayal of Austria, sacrificed Czechoslovakia and
is working in devious ways to strengthen Hitler in Europe. The
"Cliveden set" has already had so profound an effect upon the
growth and influence of fascism throughout the world, that the
author felt it advisable to include it.
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America Faces The Barricade by John L. Spivak. AFTER talking with
all kinds of people throughout the country, I am convinced that the
American worker does not want to overthrow the government. All he
wants is food. But if the government will not make it possible for
him to earn it or will not give it to him, then he will overthrow
the government, without realizing that he is doing so. Under the
present economic system it is impossible for our farms and
factories ever to absorb all the millions of unemployed. The
tendency, since the curtailment of the working hours, has been for
manufacturers to mechanize their plants more highly in order to
make up for the reduced working hours where they cannot be made up
by the "speed-up" system. Thus, for years, millions will be
permanently on relief rolls, whom the government will have to
support, since private charity can no longer do it.
This book is the entire complete work of John L. Spivak. The New
Technique of Nazi Warfare. Exposing Hitler's Undeclared War on
Americans. The material in this small volume just barely scratches
the surface of a problem which is becoming increasingly grave: the
activities of Nazi agents in the United States, Mexico, and Central
America. During the past five years I have observed some of them,
watching the original, crudely organized and directed propaganda
machine develop, grow and leave an influence far wider than most
people seem to realize. What at first appeared to be merely a
distasteful attempt by Nazi Government officials at direct
interference in the affairs of the American people and their
Government, has now assumed the more sinister aspect of also
seeking American naval and military secrets. Further studies in
Central America, Mexico and the Panama Canal Zone disclosed an
espionage network directed by the Rome-Berlin-Tokyo axis and
operating against the peace and security of the United States. A
scrutiny of the Nazi Fifth Column in a few European countries,
especially in Czechoslovakia just before that Republic was turned
over to Germany's mercy by the Munich "peace" and in France where
Nazi and Italian agents built an amazing secret underground army,
has made the fascist activities in the Western Hemisphere somewhat
clearer to me.
Kessinger Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of
rare and hard-to-find books with something of interest for
everyone!
Kessinger Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of
rare and hard-to-find books with something of interest for
everyone!
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