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Remembering Joe Turner: Neo-slavery in the South
- Dissent
- University of Pennsylvania Press
- Volume 56, Number 4, Fall 2009
- pp. 118-121
- 10.1353/dss.0.0084
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As the playwright and chronicler of twentieth-century African American life August Wilson recognized, the modern experience of forced labor haunted the black imagination long after the abolition of slavery. They tell me Joe Turner’s come and gone Ohhh Lordy… Got my man and gone Come with forty links of chain Ohhh Lordy Got my man and gone