PREVIEW: Slavery by Another Name
Preview Slavery By Another Name and challenge the belief that slavery ended with the Civil War.
Slavery by Another Name
"To most Americans, slavery ended with the Empancipation Proclamation. Slavery by Another Name gives voice to the largely forgotten victims and perpetrators of forced labor."
This 90-minute documentary film tells us 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, and coerced to do the bidding of masters. Tolerated by both the North and the South, forced labor lasted well into the 20th century.
Watch a preview of Slavery by Another Name below.
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