The documentary adds a visual dimension to the harrowing imagery Douglas A. Blackmon writes … This curriculum includes a media-making focus to facilitate creating audio recordings of personal narratives and engaging in meaningful civil discourse around social justice issues. PARK CITY — Digging into a chapter in the African-American saga that history books have traditionally glossed over, Sam Pollard 's Slavery By Another Name … This book is not a call for financial reparations. Editorial Reviews. It was funded in part by the National Endowment for the Humanities. And in reality, it's just not there. [27], Kunbi Tinuoye, writing for the Griot, described the film as a "powerful documentary" that "challenges the widely held belief that the enslavement of African-Americans ended with President Abraham Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation in 1863. 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"[26], Daniel Fienberg of Hitfix, viewing the film at Sundance, wrote, Slavery By Another Name is sturdy and well-researched stuff and it will play well when it airs on PBS next month and it should play well in the future in classrooms, but as a film festival entry, it isn't nearly confident enough in its artistry. She praised the book's evidence as "relentless and fascinating," although she thought that the conceit of reconstructing Cottenham's life gives the book "a shaky start". [4] Blackmon began to research the subject more widely, visiting various southern county courthouses to obtain records on arrest, conviction, and sentences. 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. [22] Melvin filed a lawsuit stating that his First Amendment rights had been violated. In 2009, it was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction. The film is strea… As context, Blackmon describes the beginnings of "industrial slavery",[9] in which convict laborers were put to work in factories or mines rather than cotton fields. 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 he’d learned about the politics of the day and how those politics and slavery were synonymous then as they are today. Northern attention was focused on immigration and World War I. But such efforts received little support nationally and none in the South, which had disenfranchised most blacks to exclude them from the political system. Watch the 90-minute film about slavery after the Civil War. EMBED (for wordpress.com hosted blogs and archive.org item tags) Want more? The Pulitzer-Prize winning book by Douglas Blackmon Slavery By Another Name (Doubleday, 2008), has also become a documentary film (and Sundance Film Festival selection). Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible orders. [2] It explores the forced labor of prisoners, overwhelmingly African American men, 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 United States. A documentary that recounts the many ways in which American slavery persisted as a practice many decades after its supposed abolition. "[16], W. Fitzhugh Brundage wrote in The Journal of Blacks in Higher Education that, Blackmon deserves high praise for this deeply moving and troubling history. Watch the film with Haitian-Creole (Kreyòl Ayisyen), Portuguese (Português) and Spanish (Español) subtitles. EMBED. [15] Leonard Pitts, a columnist for the Miami Herald, wrote that "Slavery by Another Name is an astonishing book. With Laurence Fishburne, Turron Kofi Alleyne, Douglas A. Blackmon, Melvin J Cox. “Slavery by Another Name”debuted in 2012 and runs for 90 minutes. Host Michel Martin speaks with the film… Slavery by Another Name gives voice to the largely forgotten victims and perpetrators of forced labor and features their descendants living today. The story generated a large response, and was later anthologized in Best Business Stories. Slavery by Another Name premiered in competition at the Sundance Film Festival in January 2012. Another slave, Albert, had wed, and left for good in the middle of the first picking time after the destruction of the war—amid the chaos and uncertainty when no one could be sure slavery had truly ended.7 Albert didn’t wait to find out. In the introduction to Slavery by Another Name, Blackmon describes his experience as a reporter for the Wall Street Journal "asking a provocative question: What would be revealed if American corporations were examined through the same sharp lens of historical confrontation as the one then being trained on German corporations that relied on Jewish slave labor during World War II and the Swiss banks that robbed victims of the Holocaust of their fortunes? [11] Joseph E. Brown, former governor of Georgia, amassed great wealth based on his use of convict labor in his Dade Coal Company mines and other enterprises, from 1874 to 1894. He grew up in Washington County, Mississippi, where as a seventh grader he was encouraged by his teacher and his mother to research a local racist incident, despite the opposition of some citizens. Blackmon argues that slavery in the United States did not end with the Civil War, but instead persisted well into the 20th century. 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