Slavery By Another Name, With Audio Description.

Format:

Video

Series:

Academic Video Online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Slavery.

Race discrimination.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (96 minutes)

Place of Publication:

[Place of publication not identified] : Public Broadcasting Service, 2012.

System Details:

video file

Summary:

Slavery By Another Name challenges one of America's most cherished assumptions -- the belief that slavery in the US ended with Abraham Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation. Based on Douglas A. Blackmon's Pulitzer Prize-winning book, the film tells how even as chattel slavery came to an end in the South in 1865, thousands of African Americans were pulled back into forced labor with shocking force and brutality. It was a system in which men, often guilty of no crime at all, were arrested, compelled to work without pay, repeatedly bought and sold, and coerced to do the bidding of masters. Tolerated by both the North and South, forced labor lasted well into the 20th century. For most Americans this is entirely new history. Slavery by Another Name gives voice to the largely forgotten victims and perpetrators of forced labor and features their descendants living today.

Notes:

Title from resource description page (viewed January 27, 2025).

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