Competition and Coercion: Blacks in the American economy, 1865-1914 is a reinterpretation of black economic history in the half-century after Emancipation. Its central theme is that economic competition and racial coercion jointly determined the material condition of the blacks.

Competition and Coercion: Blacks in the American economy, 1865 1914 is a reinterpretation of black economic history in the half-century after Emancipation.