The reenslavement of black americans from the civil war. Slavery by another name was like a punch in the stomachpainful to watch and quick to make you react. Olivia leunis aads slavery by another name film notes 1. The reenslavement of black americans from the civil war to world. I thought i did know about the end of slavery, but after having read the book and seen the film, i became aware of how little i really knew and how important these facts about this ongoing form of slavery by another name up to the 1940s are to understand even the situation after this extreme exploitation of human beeings has ended. The genius of blackmons book is that it illuminates both the real human. Slavery by another name 2012, a new documentary based on douglas. Slavery by another name relays the forgotten stories of postcivil war slavery duration. While the methods of forced labor took on many forms over those eight. The documentary recounts how in the years following the civil war, insidious new forms of forced labor emerged in the american south, keeping hundreds of thousands of. See the production credits from slavery by another name, the documentary based on the book by douglas a. Slavery by another name slavery by another name relays the forgotten stories of postcivil war slavery a new pbs documentary called slavery by another name tells the story of the adapted forced labor practices that helped. Slavery by another name challenging the idea that slavery in the us ended with the emancipation proclamation, this documentary recounts how following the civil war new forms of forced labor emerged, trapping hundreds of thousands of african americans in a brutal system.
For a distinguished and appropriately documented book of nonfiction by an american author that is not eligible for consideration in any other category, ten. Slavery by another name is a 90minute documentary that challenges one. This site is like a library, use search box in the widget to get ebook that you want. Mar 25, 2008 turns out, slavery wasnt really over when lincoln said it was over. Paul, minnesota, into a featurelength documentary, directed by sam pollard and narrated by laurence fishburne. Slavery by another name follows the life of green cottenham who was arrested on march 30, 1908 by the sheriff of selby county, alabama, and charged with vagrancy and in walking in his footsteps author blackmon shared what hed learned about the politics of the day and how those politics and slavery were synonymous then as they are today. Blacks agreed to help with the crops of white landowners for a certain period of time, but if they attempted to leave they were arrested. Slavery by another name is a 90minute documentary that challenges one of americans most cherished assumptions. Books and videos related to slavery by another name the house i live in. Click download or read online button to get slavery by another name book now.
Slavery by another name challenges one of our countrys most cherished assumptions. With laurence fishburne, turron kofi alleyne, douglas a. Slavery by another name 2012, a new documentary based on douglas blackmons pulitzer prizewinning nonfiction book about insidious forms of forced labor that emerged in the american south following the civil war, will be screened on friday, february 3, 2012 at 7. Slavery by another name, based on a prizewinning book by the journalist. The resulting book was well received by critics and became a new york times best seller.
The reenslavement of black americans from the civil. Slavery by another name quotes showing of 31 when white americans frankly peel back the layers of our commingled pasts, we are all marked by it. These white men would still hold slaves in one form or another even after laws have been passed prohibiting the use of slaves. You will become very angry when you read how georgia, alabama, texas, florida et al had local town city officials ready to arrest african americans on made up trump up charges, such as. He is right to say this period ought to be called neoslavery because labelling it. Watch videos from slavery by another name, the documentary based on the book by douglas a. Based on the pulitzerprizewinning book by douglas blackmon, slavery by another name tells the stories of men, charged with crimes like vagrancy, and often guilty of nothing, who were bought and sold, abused, and subject to sometimes deadly working conditions as unpaid convict labor. Prison bars white inmate from reading slavery by another. Part 2 of slavery by another name references john davis, the son of former slaves, and john pace, the son of slave owners. Pulitzerprizewinning book by douglas blackmon, slavery by another name tells. The personal story of green cottenham, a black man born free in the mid1880s is purely fictional.
Feb 29, 2012 by stephanie siek, cnn cnn the pulitzer prizewinning book slavery by another name. The reenslavement of black americans from the civil war to world war ii is a searing and thorough account of the new form of slavery that continues throughout much of the south in the decades after the civil war. Blackmon, chronicles how hundreds of thousands of blacks in the south continued to exist. Thegrio report the 90 minute film, slavery by another name, based on a book by journalist douglas a. The reenslavement of black people in america from the civil war to world war ii. I wish we could have interviewed your grandfather when we were making the slavery by another name film, or when i was writing the book. Dozens of faculty, staff, students and community members attended the event, which began thursday morning in the sadler center with a screening of the pbs documentary slavery by another name.
By stephanie siek, cnn cnn the pulitzer prizewinning book slavery by another name. Slavery by another name is a 90minute documentary that challenges the belief that slavery ended with the civil war. Slavery by another name is a documentary about the brutality southern white men inflicted upon black people. Some neighbors called the cottingham section of the county pratts ferry, for the. Though even he, like thousands of other elderly africanamericans still alive today, might or might not have fully realized just how bad things were in the rural south for a black farm family at the time of his birth, most likely in the 1910s and 1920s. Mar 25, 2008 slavery by another name follows the life of green cottenham who was arrested on march 30, 1908 by the sheriff of selby county, alabama, and charged with vagrancy and in walking in his footsteps author blackmon shared what hed learned about the politics of the day and how those politics and slavery were synonymous then as they are today. With pbs preparing to broadcast the documentary version of the book, there is an opportunity for renewed scrutiny.
This system included new brutal methods of forced labor in which men were arrested. In the 5 cotton states, nearly half of all capital was in human beings, so when the investment was transferred from slave holders. Nov 14, 2014 slavery by another name is definitely an eyeopening documentary. The pulitzerprize winning book by douglas blackmon slavery by another name doubleday, 2008, has also become a documentary film and sundance film festival selection. Slavery by another name did slavery really end with the civil war. In awarding the prize, the pulitzer committee called the book. 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. They were imprisoned for standing outside called vagrancy laws and put to. Slavery by another name is widely recognized as a reputable account of a deeply disturbing part of our countrys history that must be grappled with and understood, states eji director bryan stevenson, who filed the suit.
The reenslavement of black americans from the civil war to world war ii is a book by american writer douglas a. The documentary slavery by another name explores how in the years following the emancipation proclamation, systematic approaches were taken to reenslave newly freed blacks in the united states. Blackmon, brought the pbs by producer and director. Apr 20, 2017 the film evokes sam pollards eyeopening 2012 feature documentary slavery by another name and angela davis 1997 speech, the prison industrial complex, later released as an audio cd that served as the basis for her book of the same title. In this epic research and media project, blackmon and his collaborators bring to light a period of time when slavery had officially ended, yet a new form of was being reinstated.
This documentary was based off of a pulitzerprize winning book by douglas blackmon in which he details how slavery continued in the southern united states following the emancipation proclamation and the. Blackmon is an american journalist and an awardwinning author born on september 6 th, 1964. This gets slavery by another name off to a shaky start. Slavery by another name pdf summary blackmon digs deep in world history, and as a reporter decides to provoke the wall street journal by asking a series of questions that make every person raise its eyebrows over the moneymaking methods. Doug blackmon discusses slavery by another name on campus.
Pbs bases its slavery by another name documentary on the pulitzer prizewinning book by the same name. In the beginning of the 1900s, davis was arrested and fined. Blackmon, brought the pbs by producer and director sam pollard and executive producer by. Pollard has joined forces yet again with sheila curran bernard, a writer that worked on eyes on the prize, to adapt the book written by douglas a. Racial history book banned by alabama prison now a pbs. Author douglas blackmon is an awardwinning journalist, also the.
Based on the pulitzerprizewinning book by douglas blackmon, slavery by another name tells the stories of men, charged with crimes like vagrancy. The peonage system represents one of the great failures of reconstruction. A new book by douglas blackmon called slavery by another name argues that slavery persisted in different forms long after 1862. Blackmon new york, anchor books, 2009 slavery didnt end with the surrender of confederate forces in 1865. Slavery by another name facing history and ourselves. One of the best ways to determine if youve seen a great documentary is if it teaches you something new and if it energizes you or makes you angry.
A huge system of forced, unpaid labor, mostly affecting southern black men, that lasted until world war ii. 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 view on wordpress. Slavery by another namedebuted in 2012 and runs for 90 minutes. Pollard, the director of this historical documentary, may also be known for his work on eyes on the prize and 4 little girls. It exposes the ghosts in our blood that infect and haunt each generation as it goes forward in ignorance of the past and its consequences for the future. Mostly innocent africanamerican men usually in the south would be arrested and. Peonage, also called debt slavery or debt servitude, is a system where an employer compels a worker to pay off a debt with work. The pbs documentary slavery by another name examines the perpetuation of slavery under the guise of the peonage system. Another name is a 90 minute documentary that challenges one of americas most cherished assumptions. Slavery by another name, is a thought provoking and maddening book about slavery in the south during the turn of the twentieth century through the 1960s. Slavery by another name download ebook pdf, epub, tuebl. I actually read the book by douglas blackmon that the documentary was based off of so i already had some background knowledge and knew what to expect going into viewing of it. The american history has a dark period in which to be a black person is a crime. The documentary slavery by another name is enjoyable, but has its flaws.
Documentary th argues mass incarceration is an extension of slavery filmmaker ava duvernay talks about her new documentary, th, which explores the history of. In 2009, it was awarded the pulitzer prize for general nonfiction. Blackmons pulitzer prizewinning book, the film illuminates how in the years following the civil war, insidious new forms of forced labor emerged in the american south, persisting until the onset of world war ii. The reenslavement of black people in america from the civil war to world war ii by douglas a. Simultaneously, pace bought land and was in the process of acquiring slaves through the contract method. Slavery by another name the re enslavement of black. Slavery by another name doc sheds light on era of neoslavery.
Blackmons book of the same name and it is a riveting program. It was a shocking reality that often went unacknowledged, then and now. Industrialized slavery came in various other forms, as this documentary shows. The acclaimed book was made into a pbs documentary by the same name. Slavery by another name documentary is a powerful look. This documentary based on the bestselling book by douglas blackmon is not. Back southerners were no longer slaves but not yet free 2. Slavery by another namefilm screening with douglas blackmon. It was not slavery in the beginning, yet essentially became another form of it.
Based on the pulitzerprizewinning book by douglas blackmon, slavery by another name tells the stories of men, charged with crimes like vagrancy, and often guilty of nothing, who were bought and sold, abused, and. Slavery by another name provides stark evidence of our continued failure to recognize and address the history of slavery in this nation. Slavery by another name history background by nancy obrien wagner, bluestem heritage group introduction for more than seventyfive years after the emancipation proclamation and the end of the civil war, thousands of blacks were systematically forced to work against their will. In 2012, it was adapted as a documentary film for pbs, also titled slavery by another name. The reenslavement of black americans from the civil war to world war ii by douglas a. Slavery by another name challenges one of americas most cherished assumptions the belief that slavery in the us ended with abraham lincolns emancipation proclamation by telling the harrowing story of how in the south, a new system of involuntary servitude took its place with shocking force. The georgia center for the book, the largest nonprofit literary organization in the southeast and an affiliate of the library of congress, named slavery by another name one of 25 books all georgians should read. One of the programs was a documentary called slavery by another name which aired on pbs. As financial incentives for the southern states faded, political scandals and abuse outrages gained. The film was selected for the prestigious sundance film.
Blackmon in which the american slave history has been narrated. Blackmon said of the officials actions that the idea that a book like mine is somehow incendiary or a call to violence is so absurd. A pulitzer prizewinning account of the age of neoslavery, the american period following the emancipation proclamation in which convicts, mostly black men, were leased through forced labor camps operated by state and federal governments. The prison of slavery by the 1920s, civil rights groups and labor unions were demanding that the convict lease system be ended. Blackmon, brought the pbs by producer and director sam pollard and executive producer by catherine. Slavery by another name the reenslavement of black americans from the civil war to world war iiby douglas a. The documentary from directorproducer sam pollard argues that emancipation didnt go into full effect until world war ii. Theatrical potential is minimal especially since the film plays on public. Whether a company or an individual, we are marred either by our connections to the specific crimes and injuries of our fathers and their fathers. Narrated by laurence fishburne, slavery by another name is a powerful and gripping documentary which sheds light on one of americas darkest chapters in history.
This slavery by another name movie guide questions worksheet tv 2012 challenges students to internalize the vast amount of information in this pbs documentary based on douglas a. A new pbs documentary called slavery by another name tells the story of the adapted forced labor practices that helped extend slavery long after the end of the civil war. Press highlights from slavery by another name, the documentary based on the book by douglas a. It has since been adapted by a pbs affiliate in st. Slavery by another name and modern context slavery by another name is a documentary by douglas a.
Interview with director of new documentary on the failure of u. The reenslavement of black americans from the civil war to world war ii, by douglas blackmon, tells the. A documentary of the history of american slavery from its beginnings in the british colonies through the years of postcivil war reconstruction, this series examines the integral role. The film spans over eight decades starting from 1865.
Books and films from the metropolitan state university library. Slavery by another namefilm screening with douglas. Documentary explores slavery by another name thegrio. Slavery by another name gives voice to the largely forgotten victims and perpetrators of forced labor and features their descendants living today.
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