![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Executive in Charge of Production Gerry Richman.īy 1865, despite the promise of the Emancipation Proclamation, the Thirteenth Amendment, and the Confederate defeat Narrated by Laurence Fishburne. Original Score by Michael Bacon. Christina Comer, who discovered how her family profited from the system, says that “the story is important no matter how painful the reality is.”Ī production of TPT National Productions in association with Two Dollars & A Dream, Inc. Interviews with the descendants of victims and perpetrators resonate with a modern audience. 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 subjected to sometimes deadly working conditions as unpaid convict labor. It was a shocking reality that often went unacknowledged, then and now: a huge system of forced, unpaid labor, mostly affecting Southern black men, that lasted until World War II. ![]()
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