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- HistoricalDocumentary
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Slavery by Another Name, 2012
English
USA
Profile of Slavery by Another Name
The mood of Slavery by Another Name is thought provoking, disturbing, and bleak. The plot centers around discrimination, racism, and Americana. It is a documentary and historical movie. Stylistically, Slavery by Another Name archive footage and includes a voice over. In approach, it is serious and realistic. The setting is the USA. Slavery by Another Name happens during the American Civil War and in the 20th century. It is originally a true story and based on a book.
Summary of Slavery by Another Name
Sam Pollard performs a remarkable act of historical reclamation in this documentary, recounting the many ways in which American slavery persisted as a practice many decades after its supposed abolition. It is a story impressive in its sweep and alarming in the way that its larger theme—an American moral failure—has been obscured in history.
Facing economic catastrophe under Reconstruction, as well as freed black citizens’ political and social ascendancy, southern states found effective tactics to continue forced servitude in new modes. Techniques such as peonage (forced labor to pay off debts), leasing convicts to private business, or forcing convict labor in state-run enterprises subjected newly freed American citizens to inescapable conditions that insidiously operated under more palatable names than slavery.
Pollard recounts this slowly evolving hidden history, including the activism that powerfully confronted it, with a stirring combination of photographs, reenactments, and the testimony of key historians, bringing to light many shocking details, but more importantly redefining “emancipation” in history and American political life.
Details
| Language: | English |
| Country: | USA |
| Release date: | 23 January 2012 |
| Runtime: | 90 min |
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as John Davis
as Warren Reese
as James Kennedy
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