History

Slavery by Another Name

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 1865, thousands of African Americans were pulled back into forced labor with shocking force and brutality.

Slavery by Another Name with Haitian-Creole Subtitles

1h 26m

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.

Episodes

  • Slavery by Another Name with Haitian-Creole Subtitles: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    Slavery by Another Name with Haitian-Creole Subtitles

    S1 E4 - 1h 26m

    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.

  • Slavery by Another Name with Portuguese Subtitles: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    Slavery by Another Name with Portuguese Subtitles

    S1 E3 - 1h 26m

    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.

  • Slavery by Another Name with Spanish Subtitles: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    Slavery by Another Name with Spanish Subtitles

    S1 E2 - 1h 26m

    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.

  • The Bricks We Stand On: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    The Bricks We Stand On

    S1 E3 - 17m 55s

    In this 20 minute extra, Douglas A. Blackmon takes us to Atlanta for a look to explore the history of the city and learn about how the project evolved. The author also visits with descendents of historical characters featured in his book and the film who discuss the importance of coming to grips with challenging history.

  • Slavery by Another Name: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    Slavery by Another Name

    S1 E1 - 1h 24m

    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.

Extras + Features

  • The Haves and Have Nots: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    The Haves and Have Nots

    S1 - 7m 27s

    "As Green grew into school age and then adolescence, the family increasingly felt the repercussions of two convulsive crescendos building toward a climax early in the next century."

  • History is Dynamic: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    History is Dynamic

    S1 - 49s

    "As painful as it may be to plow the past, among the ephemera left behind by generations crushed in the wheels of American white supremacy are telling explanations for the fissures that still thread our society."

  • The Economics of Rebuilding: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    The Economics of Rebuilding

    S1 - 1m 48s

    “In the absence of any means to supply freed slaves with land, the Freedmen’s Bureau and northern military commanders stationed in the South encouraged blacks to enter into labor contracts with whites."

  • Slavery by Another Name Preview: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    Slavery by Another Name Promo

    S1 - 30s

    Explore the little-known story of the labor practices and laws that effectively created a new form of slavery in the South that persisted into the 20th century. Laurence Fishburne narrates.

  • Peonage and Pearl Harbor: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    Peonage and Pearl Harbor

    S1 -

    Historian Risa Goluboff tells about the prosecution of peonage cases that began following the attack on Pearl Harbor.

  • Myths and Amendments: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    Myths and Amendments

    S1 - 2m 28s

    Historian James Grossman explains the myths around slavery and how the thirteenth, fourteenth and fifteenth amendments changed them.

  • Reflections on Sharecropping: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    Reflections on Sharecropping

    S1 - 2m 18s

    During a StoryCorps interview, U.W. Clemons talked about his grandparents and parents and their lives of sharecropping following the Civil War.

  • The Origins of Black Codes: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    The Origins of Black Codes

    S1 - 2m 31s

    Historian Mary Ellen Curtin explains the origins of Black Codes and how they were local laws to subject free people to systems of control.

  • The Purpose of Terrorism: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    The Purpose of Terrorism

    S1 -

    Descendant Sharon Malone talks about the true purpose of terrorism, its results and why people stayed where they were be persecuted.

  • The Creation of the NAACP: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    The Creation of the NAACP

    S1 - 1m 50s

    Historian Risa Goluboff explains the creation of the NAACP and its importance at this time in history.

Schedule

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