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Slavery by Another Name was adapted as a 90-minute documentary film, which premiered on PBS in February 2012. [25] The film was executive produced by Catherine Allan of Twin Cities Public Television, co-executive produced by Blackmon, directed by Sam Pollard, written by Sheila Curran Bernard, and narrated by Laurence Fishburne.
In 2009, Blackmon was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction for Slavery by Another Name. [1] [6] A documentary film which is based on Blackmon's book and also titled Slavery by Another Name, was aired on February 13, 2012, on PBS stations. [5] The film can be viewed in its entirety on the PBS website. [7]
"Slavery by Another Name" According to a 2011 PBS documentary: "(Milner) was also a supreme racist and a despotic person." He stated, for example, "Negro labor can be ...
Blackmon, Douglas A. Slavery By Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II, documentary film, 2009, PBS, available online; Chesnutt, Charles W. Excerpts from "Peonage, or the New Slavery", Voice of the Negro, 1 (Sept. 1904): 394-97; Cooper, Len. "Slavery Did Not End With The Civil War.
The Chattahoochee Brick Company was a brickworks located on the banks of the Chattahoochee River in Atlanta, Georgia, United States.The brickworks, founded by Atlanta mayor James W. English in 1878, is notable for its extensive use of convict lease labor, wherein hundreds of African American convicts worked in conditions similar to those experienced during antebellum slavery.
Slavery by Another Name is a book by American writer Douglas A. Blackmon, published by Anchor Books in 2008. [55] It explores the forced labor of imprisoned black men and women through the convict lease system used by states, local governments, white farmers, and corporations after the American Civil War until World War II in the southern ...
Blackmon, Douglas A. Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II. New York: Anchor Books, Random House Publishing, 2008. ISBN 0-385-72270-2. Lichtenstein, Alex. Twice the Work of Free Labor: The Political Economy of Convict Labor in the New South (Verso, 1996).
Slaveryinamerica is a website archive of the history of slavery in America. It is jointly funded by PBS and New York Life. [1] Slavery was being practiced throughout America in the 17th and 18th century, and the slaves built the foundation of the new nation. [2]