6/27/2023 0 Comments The book slavery by another name![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Blacks who were convicted of crimes, no matter how insignificant - vagrancy or the theft of a pig worth more than $1 – were often given long sentences and made available to mines, farms and factories. Much of the South was built on forced Black labor after slavery was declared unconstitutional in 1863 and the South surrendered to end the Civil War in 1865. Slavery By Another Name reveals a dirty secret that has long been known in the historical community. Theatrical potential is minimal – especially since the film plays on public television in the US in mid-February, but its educational market could be strong in America. Told through documents, letters, re-enactments and a narrative by Laurence Fishburne, the doc has a pedagogical tone found in films that accompany museum exhibitions. ![]() Blackmon, is a compendium of abuses that augments that conventionally-accepted historical record of the economy of the American South after the Civil War. Slavery By Another Name, based on a prize-winning book by the journalist Douglas A. The name just changed, and for many American Blacks, things got worse before they got better under freedom. Slavery didn’t end with the Emancipation Proclamation. ![]()
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