Slavery by Another Name is a 90-minute documentary that challenges one of Americans’ most cherished assumptions: the belief that slavery in this country ended with the Emancipation Proclamation. 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. -PBS
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geo321This needs to be seen. *promote
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charliemsays...Slavery isnt dead, its just changed names.
Our slave masters are the banks, and credit is the chains that keep us tilling the fields.
Its not just blacks that are slaves now, its everyone....its far more insidious because of how counter-intuitive it has become. Oh Ill just take out a loan to pay for X, and work for Y to pay it off (Y being the loan + interest....interest being the slave driver here).
...I hate modern economy >.<
legacy0100ughhh.... Depressing omg. I can only watch for 5 minutes at a time.
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