The Centre for American Studies will host a screening of the documentary, Slavery by Another Name (PBS, Feb 2012) with an introduction and post-film discussion chaired by visiting lecturer Dr Konstantinos D. Karatzas (University of Zaragoza, Aragon, Spain).
The screening will take place on Wednesday 11 May 2016 from 1.00-3.00pm in Marlowe Lecture Theatre 2. There is no entry fee and all staff and students are warmly welcome. Find out more by viewing the documentary trailer.
Slavery by Another Name (PBS, Feb 2012)
For most Americans this is entirely new history. Slavery by Another Name gives voice to the largely forgotten victims and perpetrators of forced labor and features their descendants living today.
Based on Douglas A. Blackmon’s Pulitzer Prize-winning book, this 90-minute documentary 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.
Slavery by Another Name 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. It was a system in which men, often guilty of no crime at all, were arrested, compelled to work without pay, repeatedly bought and sold, and coerced to do the bidding of masters. Tolerated by both the North and South, forced labor lasted well into the 20th century.