The book is called Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black People in America from the Civil War to World War II. The documentary, to be broadcast on PBS stations nationwide, tells the … Industrialized slavery came in various other forms, as this documentary shows. All over people were snapping pictures, but they're all anonymous. Slavery by Another Name, a documentary film based on Douglas A. Blackmon’s Pulitzer Prize–winning book, turns that belief on its head. Fim nan vini ak Gid Diskisyon ki dekri istwa chak peyi ak esklavaj. Why did you focus on him when there wasn't much evidence of his existence? The PBS documentary Slavery by Another Name examines the perpetuation of slavery under the guise of the peonage system. The curriculum will  strengthen crucial “soft skills,” such as teamwork, public speaking, time management, communication, self-confidence, and critical thinking, which are key to post–high school success. Wurzer: One of the protagonists in the book and in the film, he's prominent, is Green Cottenham. Blackmon: That name stuck out — Green Cottenham. Or is this a story about free and innocent people who committed no crimes, by and large, being swept up into a system that exists specifically to provide for (slave owners) and it really has nothing to do with whether crimes are occurring or not? , funded by the Open Society Campaign for Black Male Achievement. Telechaje Gid Diskisyon an (Kreyòl Ayisyen)Telechaje Gid Diskisyon an (Angle)Download the Discussion Guide in English. And of course, in all historical research, it's much easier to work on distinct names than common names. It was a shocking reality that often went unacknowledged, then and now: A huge system of forced, unpaid labor, mostly affecting Southern black men, that lasted until World War II. Where did you find his letters? So the real question was: Is this a story about a criminal justice system in which criminals are being punished really harshly and maybe too harshly? There's no evidence that that ever happened. And so for me, he became representative of that, and I made a very deliberate decision that I couldn't be part of the conspiracy to lose him from history, and instead had to do the opposite. But when I first began the really hardcore research into all of this, one of the main questions that I had to answer was that it was clear that all of a sudden the South had gone from this place where there were no black people incarcerated — because slaves had been under the purview of their ostensible owners, so there were no black people in prison or being arrested for the most part — to this place that had this massive population of black people being held by the state and sold into this labor situations. Questions? And actually, we also intercut a scene with a descendant of the guy who whipped him and whipped other people in the mines. © 1995 – 2017 Public Broadcasting Service (PBS). Esta escravização sistemática dos africanos foi a maior migração forçada da história da humanidade e seus efeitos ainda hoje são sentidos. Baixe o guia de debate (português)Baixe o guia de debate (inglês)Download the Discussion Guide in English. As financial incentives for the Southern states faded, political scandals and abuse outrages gained There were no photos and very little written documentation. A new documentary to be broadcast tonight, produced partly in Minnesota, shows how thousands of African Americans were imprisoned on trumped-up charges after the Civil War and leased to the owners of factories, farms and mines as slave laborers. because those are very, very different stories. How did it end? The free OVEE screening, which features clips from the documentary, will be moderated by Felicia Pride. He was a young black man who was a convict leased out by the state of Alabama who was worked to death in a coal mine. The book is called Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black People in America from the Civil War to World War II. With generous funding from the W.K. The peonage system represents one of the great failures of Reconstruction. Mas a escravidão e seu legado não são exclusivos dos EUA. O documentário da PBS A escravidão por outro nome explora a pós-emancipação da escravidão nos Estados Unidos. PBS bases its Slavery by Another Name documentary on the Pulitzer Prize-winning book by the same name. Kellogg Foundation, viewers in Brazil, Mexico and Haiti, as well as around the world, can now watch, Telechaje Gid Diskisyon an (Kreyòl Ayisyen), Slavery by Another Name with Haitian-Creole Subtitles, Slavery by Another Name with Portuguese Subtitles, Slavery by Another Name with Spanish Subtitles. Individual donations are behind the clarity in coverage from our reporters across the state, stories that connect us, and conversations that provide perspectives. With Laurence Fishburne, Turron Kofi Alleyne, Douglas A. Blackmon, Mary Ellen Curtin. Based on Blackmon’s research, Slavery by Another Name spans eight decades, from 1865 to 1945, revealing the interlocking forces in both the South and the North that enabled this “neoslavery” to begin and persist. MPR's Cathy Wurzer discussed the documentary, "Slavery By Another Name," with author Douglas Blackmon and executive producer Catherine Allan. But your research busts that myth. Kellogg Foundation, viewers in Brazil, Mexico and Haiti, as well as around the world, can now watch Slavery by Another Name online in English, Portuguese, Spanish, and Haitian Creole, accompanied by Discussion Guides describing each country’s history with slavery. Catherine Allan: It was really a challenge because there were no photographs of him. And as I began to research, even I, as someone who had been paying attention to some of these sorts of things for a long time and was open to alternative explanations, even I was fairly astonished when I put it together, basically by going county by county and finding the criminal arrest records and the jail records in county after county after county from this period of time and seeing that if there had been crime waves, there had to have been records of crimes and people being arrested for crimes. In the case of Green Cottenham, not only has time forgotten him, no one even knew him to begin with. Slavery by Another Name, a documentary film based on Douglas A. Blackmon’s Pulitzer Prize–winning book, turns that belief on its head. It shows how the forced labor of generations of African Americans has created long-lasting racial and economic divisions that persist to this day. Durante os anos do comércio transatlântico de escravos, aproximadamente entre 1500 e 1866, mais de 12 milhões de escravos foram enviados da África para as Américas. It was not slavery in the beginning, yet essentially became another form of it. The program also features interviews with Douglas Blackmon and with leading scholars of this period. Gracias al generoso financiamiento de W. K. Kellogg Foundation, los espectadores de Brasil, México y Haití, así como de todo el mundo, ahora pueden ver Esclavitud con otro nombre en línea en inglés, portugués, español y criollo haitiano, acompañada de Guías de discusión que describen la historia de la esclavitud en cada país. Help ensure MPR remains a resource that brings Minnesotans together. narration. Start a conversation in your own community using these free resources. A documentary that recounts the many ways in which American slavery persisted as a practice many decades after its supposed abolition. 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 African Americans in bondage, trapping them in a brutal system that would persist until the onset of World War II. La esclavización sistemática de africanos fue la migración forzada más grande en la historia de la humanidad, y sus consecuencias se hacen sentir hasta el día de hoy. All rights reserved. Nan moun sa yo, yo te vann plis pase 4 milyon bay Brezil, ak 2.5 milyon bay koloni Espanyòl yo tankou Meksik ak Ispanyola (Ayiti ak Repiblik Dominikèn) ak lòt pati Amerik Latin ak Amerik Disid epi anviwon 400,000 Ozetazini. The project will educate African American and Latino boys and their teachers about this shameful and little-known chapter in American history. Men esklavaj ak eritaj li pa sèlman Ozetazini. In fact, it's the opposite. It airs on PBS stations around the country tonight. Pero la esclavitud y su legado no son exclusivos de los Estados Unidos. Produced by tpt National Productions and 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. The program’s 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. This systematic enslavement of Africans was the largest forced migration in human history and its effects are still being felt today. … Kòmanse yon konvèsasyon nan pwòp kominote w ak resous gratis sa yo. De ellos, 4 millones fueron vendidos a Brasil, 2.5 millones a las colonias españolas, incluidas México y La Española (Haití y República Dominicana) y otras partes de Latinoamérica y Sudamérica, y alrededor de 400,000 a los Estados Unidos. Douglas Blackmon: Well, it became really apparent really fast that that was this essentially made up story about what had happened after the Civil War. And in reality, it's just not there. Wurzer: You had another re-creation in the film of a prison laborer, Ezekiel Archey, who wrote letters to inspectors about his plight in the Pratt coal mine, which was a miserable existence. 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. MPR's Cathy Wurzer discussed the documentary, "Slavery By Another Name," with author Douglas Blackmon and executive producer Catherine Allan.