slavery by another name pbs transcript
On the 140th anniversary, historical sites in several states are offering a more realistic portrayal of slavery and plantation life. Doubleday. He saw them as a great source of profit. Neoslavery totally circumscribed the lives of hundreds of thousands of African Americans well into the 20th century.. 1 0 obj <> African-Americans haven't had that long opportunity to recover from all the terrible damage of slavery. "Slavery by Another Name" challenges one of our country's most cherished assumptions: the belief that slavery ended with Abraham Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation of . February 13, 2012 8:31 AM. A 90-minute film that challenges the assumption and the belief that slavery in this country ended with the Emancipation Proclamation. The NEH Created Equalproject uses the power of documentary films to encourage public conversations about the changing meanings of freedom and equality in America. Slavery by Another Name,a documentary film based on Douglas A. Blackmons Pulitzer Prizewinning book, turns that belief on its head. Episode 1: "The Downward Spiral". Morgan Freeman, Narrator: They were from Africa and Europe. Produced bytpt National Productionsand directed by Sam Pollard, Slavery by Another Name was a selection of the 2012 Sundance Film Festival and aired on PBS that same year as part of Black History Month. But, instead, five months later, he died under horrible conditions in a coal mine outside of Birmingham owned by U.S. Steel Corporation. 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By entering your email address and clicking Submit, you agree to receive updates from the Open Society Foundations about our work. yIA% u|\Xm\klEg:yyR$D"9X$BV%eE(x~p acDm|1N:HlMH6GGX]~{(21Da(cz!}0 Ay1\gG\LfpHvpUOyqql6l^oz+>~c^gj]JqB2EDSWi#)w <>>> <> 7,576 likes. A former reporter for The Wall Street Journal, he's now the chair of the Miller Center Forum at the University of Virginia. Author Douglas A. Blackmon explains the sharecropping and how it was a form of slavery. There was no crime of slavery. Slavery by Another Name Narrated by Laurence Fishburne Produced and Directed by Sam Pollard Executive Producer Catherine Allan Co-Executive Producer Douglas A. Blackmon Written by Sheila Curran Bernard Based on the book "Slavery by Another Name" by Douglas A. Blackmon Editor Jason L. Pollard Director of Photography Andrew Young tG$ ?`ix_})~u~a-jD!~1mhL\aJ.\7gC IK!*L#q$%No]+%onMM`l4myD2Xz6Q-KzF7$YHv},inIJWY kbN5&w Y H ^s%l%0A]a{*2!dX0azf Throughout his 30-year career, he has worked on a diverse array of feature films, documentaries and television projects. that executive order prompted arkansas education officials to investigate the ap african american history course taught at the academy's adamsboro . And there are long-term consequences for this these practices, which link which over the years have linked criminality and race. The film makes its PBS debut today at 9 p.m., as part of the channel's Black History Month programming. Based on Douglass Blackmon's book, the crucial issue that permitted the continuation of slavery - although by another name - was the central issue of the economics . Slavery by Another Name airs at 8 p.m. on February 13, 2012 on Eight, Arizona PBS. Slavery by. 3 0 obj [Boston, MA] :PBS Distribution, 2012. warning Note: These citations are software generated and may contain errors. But first, we need you to sign in to PBS using one of the services below. Horton talks about the recently-opened exhibit, which details the first arrival of Africans in the city -- which, for two centuries, was the capital of American slavery. April 10, 2008. More information about PBS is available at pbs.org, one of the leading dot-org websites on the Internet, or by following PBS on Twitter, Facebook or through our apps for mobile devices. Seeing the popular response to the article, he began conducting research for a more comprehensive exploration of the topic. The programs media-making focus will help African American and Latino boys create audio recordings of their personal narratives and engage in meaningful civil discourse around social justice issues. Erasing the Black Freedom Struggle: How State Standards Fail to Teach the Truth About Reconstruction, The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness, National Report on the Teaching of Reconstruction. But beginning 20, 25 years, depending on the place, after the Civil War, a whole new regime of involuntary servitude began to be put in place all across the South, and hundreds of thousands of people were catastrophically affected. Slavery by Another Name challenges one of Americans' most cherished assumptions: the belief that slavery in this country ended with the Emancipation Proclamation. Blackmon is an acclaimed journalist and independent historian, who has written extensively about the American quandary of race exploring the integration of schools during his childhood in a Mississippi Delta farm town, lost episodes of the Civil Rights movement, and, repeatedly, the dilemma of how a contemporary society should grapple with a troubled past. Slavery by another name the re-enslavement of Black Americans from the . The celebration of Juneteenth dates from 1865, when Texas slaves first learned the Civil War was over and they were free. In the summer of 1984 he was living with his 24-year-old wife and baby . We can remove the first video in the list to add this one. Excellent history of seldom covered information. , funded by the Open Society Campaign for Black Male Achievement. You make the argument that slavery didn't end in 1863, when the Emancipation Proclamation was signed, not in 1865, when the 13th Amendment to the Constitution was ratified, but 1942. Slavery by Another Name explores new forms of de facto slavery after the Civil War.MoreMore. 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. Slavery By Another Name. The film tells how even as chattel slavery came to an end in 1865, thousands of African Americans were pulled back into forced labor with shocking . Disease ran rampant through these mines. Nearly all were black men arrested and then leased" by state.and county governments to U.S. Steel or the compa nies it had acquired.^ And that's all the difference in the world. Slavery By Another Name The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans From the Civil War to World War IIBy Douglas A. Blackmon468 pages. The film documents how after the Civil War, repressive labor practices and laws pulled thousands of African Americans in the South back into new forms of slavery that lasted well into the 20th century. In addition to Spike Lees feature films, he has worked extensively on the filmmakers documentary productions, including his Academy Award-nominated Four Little Girls; Spike Lee Presents Mike Tyson; and Jim Brown All-American. By 1865, despite the promise of the Emancipation Proclamation, the Thirteenth Amendment, and the Confederate defeat in the Civil War, many former slaves did not in reality experience a new birth of freedom. The Republican-controlled Congress enacted the Fourteenth Amendment (enshrining birthright citizenship and equal protection of the law) in 1868 and the Fifteenth Amendment (guaranteeing the right to vote for all men regardless of race) in 1870. See convict reports, pardon warrants, letters to the president, and newspaper articles. PAUL, MN; JUNE 9, 2011 Slavery by Another Name, a new 90-minute documentary based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning book by Wall Street Journal senior writer Douglas A. Blackmon, explores the little-known story of the post-Emancipation era and the labor practices and laws that effectively created a new form of slavery in the South that persisted well into the 20th century. The film tells how even as chattel slavery came to an end in the South in 1865, thousands of African Americans were . And there were rafts of laws that effectively criminalized black life. So, whether it was the sharecropping, in which people were tied to the land by debt, or whether it was peonage, or whether it was convict leasing, this had a long-term effect that affected the entire American economy, or just African-Americans? But first, we need you to sign in to PBS using one of the services below. The presentation will be livestreamed on Zoom beginning at 3 p.m. and can be accessed from a PC, Mac, Linux, iOS or Android at https://csusb.zoom.us . Film. R_zu $9nNmdmt+$(0 a;91Pg]pk0QnkO94BcOUQ&m; `20ej[EwdkJy0g0v{o5AD+YE( RSC}Lc Americas history is complex, and Slavery by Another Name unravels this important part of the national story, said John F. Wilson, PBS chief TV programming executive. Your email address will not be published. The Thirteenth Amendment states that slavery was abolished, except as a punishment for a crime, says author and co-executive producer Blackmon. tpt National Productions is among the primary content producers for the public television system. A new document that airs tonight on PBS tells the story of how American citizens freed by the 13th Amendment to the Constitution remained under lock and key for decades afterward. Using archival photographs and dramatic re-enactments filmed on location in Alabama and Georgia, it tells the forgotten stories of both victims and perpetrators of neoslavery and includes interviews with their descendants living today. He was arrested on a charge of vagrancy. The Great Depression, mechanization, and other factors lead sharecropping to fade away in the 1940s. Several times in this session, Dr. Moore highlighted the fuzzy distinction between complicity in and incitement of racist violence on the part of white institutional authority figures: the Compromise of 1877, convict leasing, and the culture of lynching. 0 The documentary "Slavery By Another Name" chronicled the social brutalities yet fiendishly rational economic sensibilities of slavery, and why it continued until the 1960s. So across the South, laws were passed to criminalize everyday African American life. In many cases, they were sent to the South coal mines, including some owned by businessman and former slave owner John Milner. Blackmon, along with a team of other Wall Street Journal writers, was a finalist in 2011 for another Pulitzer Prize, for their investigation into the causes of the BP oil spill last year. Paul. It also incorporates interviews with people living today, including several African American descendants of victims of forced labor who discovered their connection to this history after reading Blackmons book. endobj The , With extreme weather all over the United States and in the news, yet with little, Zinn did not merely record history, he made it: as a professor at Spelman College. Major funding for SLAVERY BY ANOTHER NAME provided by National Endowment for the Humanities, W.K. This was indeed a contributing factor to the Civil war, especially to the southern whites. wf^u*`9qh9O5}wDQfZf,QYo^' L6 zQb*SY7%FBa`fo8e>GX+Q6 [^u Their status . Slavery by Another Name is produced by tpt National Productions, a division of Twin Cities Public Television (tpt), the PBS affiliate for Minneapolis/St. Drawing public attention to some of the victims and perpetrators of this forced labor system, the film Slavery by Another Name presents a story that has been largely ignored in history books. 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