Them Dark Days is written by William Dusinberre in the year 1996. The book provides a researched, analyzed study of southern slavery. It is most accurately, the study of the antebellum plantations on the rice coast and explains how discrimination arose there.
In the book, the writer's primary focus is on three leading families: one is the Manigault, the second is the Butler, and the third is Allston. The author describes the slavery system of men and women between blacks and whites. His writings on the sufferings of the slaves are full of empathy.
The book gives detailed accounts of the economic and social situations of that era, including how technological changes led to a big turn around to human relations. The writer's interpretation of how big profits were made possible for the big planters on the cost of black slavery. The book also tell about the situations of black slaves, their revenge from white masters who celebrated family gatherings while breaking families of slaves. The slaves showed the hatred in the wartime when Yankee troops arrived, they nailed the portraits, let them enter, told the forces all the ways to ruin, and run away.
The author presents how in the southern slave society concerning world capitalistic development. He tells slavery a variant of capitalism and rejects this system as a part of social structure — he emphasizes the end of this cruelty on blacks or any other community of the world. The writer talks about social equality with human rights and human values.
