Competition and Coercion: Blacks in the American Economy 1865-1914Competition 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. The book identifies a number of competitive processes that played important roles in protecting blacks from the racial coercion to which they were peculiarly vulnerable. It