Lincoln did a great thing, but slavery was too entrenched in the South to go away easily. In fact, it did not go away. It became institutionalized in a variety of forms. This is not intended as a metaphor or an analogy or a symbolic way of speaking. The book "Slavery By Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II," by Douglas A. Blackmon, tells all in its title. This book won the 2009 Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction and will serve as the basis for the presentation. There are massive facts that are not told in standard histories of the U.S. When the facts come to light, however, many events in recent history begin to make much more sense.