Moaning Low: From Slavery to Peonage. Involuntary Servitude in the Arkansas Delta

Moaning Low is the story of the ruthless suppression of vulnerable people by unscrupulous Delta planters and powerful business interests in the South. It began after Civil War as a means to keep freed slaves in servitude, but expanded to ensnare blacks and whites, men and women, in a hopeless cycle that kept them poor and desperate.