Workin' on the Chain Gang

Workin' on the Chain Gang 

Workin' on the chain gang is an extremely interesting book. It talks mostly about how slavery still exists even one hundred years after slavery was abolished. This entire system is a stinking blot upon the nation's honor, one which whites had a chance to expunge with the bloodshed and destruction of the Civil War, but which was immediately replenished when frightened and embittered Southerners, with the willing acquiescence of their Northern countrymen, imposed a system of apartheid on the newly freed black population. It also talks about how slavery wasn't just for blacks, white people could still be slaves. Or at least close to it.  The books mentions the Jim crow laws and how those where still keeping people especially black people down in the rankings and not allowing them to get better jobs. The book talks about how the African american people were still neglected and not given the help they deserved when they worked so hard for it. Just because they were free doesn't mean they still weren't treated with disrespect and like dirt.