Slavery by Another Name (2012)

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Slavery by Another Name is a documentary film By Sam Pollard, Catherine Allan, Douglas Blackmon and Sheila Curran Bernard released in 2012. Inspired by a prize-winning book by the journalist Douglas A. Blackmon, this film tells how African Americans were hauled into  forced labor with amazing power and cruelty when chattel slavery came to an end in the South between civil war and World War II.

Summary

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It was a harsh reality that frequently went unacknowledged, then and now: An immense arrangement of forced, unpaid labor, for the most part affecting  Southern black men, that went on until World War II.Based on the Pulitzer-Prize-winning book by Douglas Blackmon, Slavery By Another Name recounts the tales of men, accused of wrongdoings, and frequently guilty of nothing, who were purchased and sold, manhandled, and subject to sometimes dangerous working conditions as unpaid convict labor. Interviews with the descendants of victims and perpetrators resonate with a modern audience. Christina Comer, who found how her family benefitted from the system, remarks that “the story is important no matter how painful the reality is.”[1]

Controversy

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The narrative portray how black people were forced to labor against their will and not free yet despite the fact that by the time black people are no longer a slave and trapping them in abrutal system that would continue until the beginning of World War II.  Free black people  simply be caught and placed in jail and the sheriff division could offer them to a coal mining company. "People's lives were truly stolen from them, their freedom was taken away".[2]

Black people who were indicted for wrongdoings, regardless of how lenient or simply the robbery of a pig worth more than $1, they are regularly given long sentences and are accessible for mines, farms and factories."The practice was brutal. About a third of prisoner mine workers in Alabama coal mines died every year."[3]

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