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      Slavery By Another Name

      2012 List
      Reviews 78% Fewer than 50 Ratings Audience Score Read More Read Less

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      Audience Member This 90-minute PBS documentary, based upon the 2009 Pulitzer Prize-winning book by Douglas Blackmon, eviscerates one of America's most cherished myths: the belief that slavery ended with the Emancipation Proclamation of 1863. "Slavery by Another Name" documents how thousands of African Americans were pulled back into forced labor with shocking force and brutality, sanctioned by the judicial and legislative system, and propelled by the loss of slave labor after the Civil War. African Americans were systematically charged for petty crimes, and sentenced to hard labor working for former white slave owners. "Convict leasing" became "Slavery by Another Name", coercing African American "convicts" to work on chain-gangs and for major corporations. A form of "industrial slavery", these purported convicts, who worked on month-to-month leases, were used and disposed of at will. Moreover, the brutality imposed on "prisoners" in the last part of the 19th and first half of the 20th century was identical to that used against slaves prior to the Civil War. The mortality rate was as high as 30-40% or more. No records were kept. Read my entire review at www.unhealedwound.com (September 17, 2016 post) and let me know what you think! Rated 5 out of 5 stars 02/14/23 Full Review Audience Member This documentary uncovers the brutal period in the South after reconstruction. It tells the story that Douglas Blackmon explains in his book by the same name. The book is so troubling I couldn't read it all. This film captures the same horror in 90 minutes. It is an important part of U.S. history that never made it in to any history course I took in high school or college. Rated 5 out of 5 stars 02/27/23 Full Review Read all reviews Post a rating

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