Watch The Bricks We Stand On on PBS. See more from Slavery by Another Name.
Last night KPBS aired an excellent documentary, Slavery By Another Name, a harsh and painful history of how peonage, debt and labor laws and the criminal injustice system were used in Southern legislation (i.e., the Black Codes) after the Civil War to continue slavery.
Slavery by Another Name “resets” our national clock with a singular astonishing fact: Slavery in America didn’t end 150 years ago, with Abraham Lincoln’s 1863 Emancipation Proclamation. Based on Douglas A. Blackmon’s Pulitzer Prize-winning book, the film illuminates how in the years following the Civil War, insidious new forms of forced labor emerged in the American South, persisting until the onset of World War II.
“It is rare to have the opportunity to bring to television a story that, outside of academic circles, is virtually unknown,” says tpt National Productions’ Catherine Allan, executive producer of the 90 minute documentary for PBS. “In telling the story of what happened to African Americans over the 80 year period of “neo-slavery”, we hope to add a significant new facet to America’s ongoing discussion about race.”
You can view the entire 90 minute documentary online.
WATCH HERE. Definitely worth watching.
It's time this information is included in American history.