slavery by another name pbs transcript

Their status . Copyright 2021 Public Broadcasting Service (PBS), all rights reserved. <>>> . High interest rates, unpredictable harvests, and unscrupulous landlords and merchants often kept tenant farm families severely indebted, requiring the debt to be carried over until the next year or the next. MARY ELLEN CURTIN, historian: You can't drive free labor the same way that you can force prisoners to mine five tons of coal a day. PBS, with its nearly 360 member stations, offers all Americans the opportunity to explore new ideas and new worlds through television and online content. James Herriots adventures as a veterinarian in 1930s Yorkshire get a new TV adaptation. %PDF-1.7 % Slavery by Another Name,a documentary film based on Douglas A. Blackmons Pulitzer Prizewinning book, turns that belief on its head. He experienced some of the some of that period of time in which you had huge numbers of black people who voted. He has written extensively on . Equality under the Law: Slavery by Another Name. 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. So, help us understand how this could happen. Slavery by Another Name airs at 8 p.m. on February 13, 2012 on Eight, Arizona PBS. Douglas A. Blackmon shares how the project Slavery by Another Name evolved. Slavery by Another Name was a New York Times Best Seller in 2008 and was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in General Non-Fiction in 2009. Learn about peonage. Were there white convicts who were leased in this manner, too? 1 About Slavery by Another Name in the Classroom To increase the opportunities for young people to learn, interact, and engage around the history of forced labor, educational materials have been developed by Felicia Pride and The Re-Enslavement of African Americans This 90-minute PBS documentary, based upon the 2009 Pulitzer Prize-winning book by Douglas Blackmon, eviscerates one of America's most cherished myths: the belief that slavery ended with the Emancipation Proclamation of 1863. produced and directed by Sam Pollard ; written by Sheila Curran Bernard ; a production of TPT National Productions in association with Two Dollars & A Dream, Inc. Slavery by Another Name. Search Query Show Search. It also is, I think, really the missing link in understanding the persistence of the economic and educational gaps between African-Americans and whites in modern society today. 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. A documentary that recounts the many ways in which American slavery persisted as a practice many decades after its supposed abolition. He writes that it continued . 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. 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. 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. Please check your inbox to confirm. Slavery by Another Name began as an article which Blackmon wrote for The Wall Street Journal detailing the use of black forced labor by U.S. Steel Corporation. Laws favoring landowners made it difficult or even illegal for sharecroppers to sell their crops to others besides their landlord, or prevented sharecroppers from moving if they were indebted to their landlord. And he didn't have to worry about labor disputes. However, states and communities across the South ignored these federal mandates by passing black codes, laws that served to essentially re-enslave African Americans. Slavery by Another Name (PBS Documentary 2012).mp4-SD on Vimeo And the proof of that is that, once you get to the truly modern time, to 1970, and this really that's really the first point in time that we can really say African-Americans on a large scale begin to have real access to the mechanisms of achievement in America. Doubleday. And in the first years after the Civil War, African-Americans, the formerly enslaved African- Americans, did experience a period of authentic freedom and citizenship. >> that was sarah huckabee sanders on tuesday. <>/XObject<>/ProcSet[/PDF/Text/ImageB/ImageC/ImageI] >>/Annots[ 28 0 R 29 0 R 30 0 R] /MediaBox[ 0 0 612 792] /Contents 4 0 R/Group<>/Tabs/S/StructParents 0>> Slavery by Another Name explores new forms of de facto slavery after the Civil War.MoreMore. That's one of the things we forget sometimes when we talk about the atrocities really that were committed against African-Americans. View Slavery by Another Name.pdf from HIST 1493 at Tulsa Community College. Americans were very aware of it. It was almost impossible for a black man in the South, in the rural South, in the early 20th century not to be at risk of arrest at almost any time. Slavery by Another Name Sharecropping as Slavery 2:03 Published: 2012/02/12 Rating: NR Author Douglas A. Blackmon explains the sharecropping and how it was a form of slavery. PBS bases its Slavery by Another Name documentary on the Pulitzer Prize-winning book by the same name. Historians and actors describe it in this excerpt. A former reporter for The Wall Street Journal, he's now the chair of the Miller Center Forum at the University of Virginia. So many people tell me they were uncertain about accounts passed down by forebears which seemed to suggest that families were still being held as neo-slaves in the 1940s, 1950s and 1960s. Executive in Charge of Production Gerry Richman. 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. How long was slavery by another name? The PBS documentary, " Slavery by Another Name," will be screened and followed by discussion led by Marc Robinson, CSUSB assistant professor of history, when the next Conversations on Race and Policing convenes virtually on Wednesday, Feb. 24. GcJm!B{+wnj{\{ Nnpfq~j=AHNZ$Xjnqot)rn>m%bi"z'-HPbMCA tat'qtbM3m)^f`*^%6+n. There was no crime of slavery. Biography. One of our most cherished assumptions as Americans is that slavery in this country ended with the Emancipation Proclamation of 1863. It also includes stories about creative efforts by districts and/or individual teachers in each state to teach outside the textbook about Reconstruction. Slavery by Another Nameis now the focus of a new educational project fromtptNational Productions, Slavery by Another Name: Digital Storytelling, funded by the Open Society Campaign for Black Male Achievement. PBS broad array of programs has been consistently honored by the industrys most coveted award competitions. In addition to crafting award-winning series, documentaries and specials, tpt National Productions amplifies its reach and impact through innovative websites, educational outreach programs and community engagement initiatives. Well, you make an interesting point in the book and in the documentary that, economically, it made more sense to protect slaves than it did to protect the lives of people who were convict laborers or people who were under peonage, it was called? 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 Slavery by another name the re-enslavement of Black Americans from the . Copyright 2023 Public Broadcasting Service (PBS), A lot of the things that kept people in control under slavery are amplified under this convict system. About Slavery by Another Name. Recursively sort the rest of the list, then insert the one left-over item where it belongs in the list, like adding a . There were whites who were sucked into the system, no doubt about it. 80 years What are some of the other forms of slavery by another name? Certainly, white Southerners were. But first, we need you to sign in to PBS using one of the services below. income, is the civil rights issue of our day. "Slavery by Another Name," based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning book of the same name, tells the story of the thousands of African-Americans who were arrested on trumped-up charges and forced to work as convict labor. <> 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. And this is why people like Milner wanted prisoners in his coal mines. "With PBS . 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. The goal is to empower African American and Latino male students to connect this historic period to their present experience, and present these connections in a digital format that feels powerful to them. endobj 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 . Douglas Blackmon is author of the book "Slavery by Another Name" and co-executive producer of tonight's film. 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 . And through most of the period of time that this was happening, these forced labor camps tended to be 80 or 90 percent African-Americans. He was immediately sold to a coal mine on the outskirts of Birmingham to a company that was then going to pay his fines off one month at a time. 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. 2023 Open Society Foundations, some rights reserved. Based on Blackmon's research and book of the same title, 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. Doug Blackmon, author and co-executive producer of "Slavery by Another Name" on PBS tonight, thanks so much. 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 20thcentury. Your email address will not be published. Then they read the book and realized that in fact the old stories are very likely to be truethat thousands of people were living in a state of involuntary servitude well into the lives of millions of Americans who are still alive today.. They were incredibly dangerous places to work, being subjected to violent explosions, poisonous gases that were released as coal fell from the walls, in addition to the falling coal itself. All of them were poor and exploited. Disease ran rampant through these mines. 1 0 obj Based on the Pulitzer-Prize-winning 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. The project will kick off at the end of February with an onlineOVEEscreening and panel discussion to introduce the initiative to a wide group of educators and encourage them to participate in workshops and use the educational materials in their classrooms. stream Your email address will not be published. Excellent history of seldom covered information. Clemons talked about his grandparents and parents and their lives of sharecropping. He couldn't pay the enormous fines. Instead, slavery began to recede meaningfully more like 50 or 60 years ago. false false Insertion sort: Split the input into item 1 (which might not be the smallest) and all the rest of the list. In a television interview with Blackmon about Slavery by Another Name, Bill Moyers said, "This is truly the most remarkable piece of reporting I have read in a long time." Moyers went on to express . 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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. He couldn't prove that he had a job in 1908. 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. endobj Slavery by Another Name challenges one of Americans' most cherished assumptions: the belief that slavery in this country ended with the Emancipation Proclamation. What kinds of things did African-Americans do after gaining their freedom? And it became an instrument of injustice, instead of a system of justice. And that's the language that was used, buying and selling, someone who has been purchased from a county jail or purchased from a state prison system. Just check all flip PDFs from the author SCOH-PR. Introduction by Cornel West. qEW_ wN %IdB5kW;5wK-* %*]uM5(g :tik wyEosP(Uo;Vu Lc3PN &/3ARnK ]\6N2Rj2 A. . But, overwhelmingly, this was something that happened to black people. Hatuey: 500th Anniversary of a Freedom Fighter, The Lorax: Dr. Seuss Revisited and Revised, On Howard Zinns BirthdayLessons from the Peoples Historian, Claiming and Teaching the 1963 March on Washington. In the summer of 1984 he was living with his 24-year-old wife and baby . Additional bands at: 40 kDa. Historian Mary Ellen Curtin explains the complications of sharecropping. Due to a planned power outage on Friday, 1/14, between 8am-1pm PST, some services may be impacted. And by the beginning of the 20th century, whites all over the country had seen stories written about some of the particularly the worst atrocities and some of the brutalities. Peonage System in 1901 3 Chain gang and sharecropping in 1908 When did reconstruction take place? 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