It airs on PBS stations around the country tonight. Wurzer: You had another re-creation in the film of a prison laborer, Ezekiel Archey, who wrote letters to inspectors about his plight in the Pratt coal mine, which was a miserable existence. Comience una conversación con su comunidad utilizando estos recursos gratuitos. Durante os anos do comércio transatlântico de escravos, aproximadamente entre 1500 e 1866, mais de 12 milhões de escravos foram enviados da África para as Américas. Blackmon: Ezekiel Archey was a young African American man, born in slavery, who then experienced emancipation in his childhood, but then was sucked back into the system by the 1880s. $29.95. There were lots and lots of photographs of anonymous prisoners. Men esklavaj ak eritaj li pa sèlman Ozetazini. Slavery by Another Name challenges one of our country’s most cherished assumptions: the belief that slavery ended with Abraham Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation of 1863. You make MPR News possible. In fact, it's the opposite. Donate today. But then began to realize, no I've got to go back to Green Cottenham because he represents what so much of this is really about — and that was the number of people who essentially had their lives extinguished, both physically and literally their lives ended by these practices, but because of their poverty, because of the degree to which society didn't care about these people, that nobody in America really cared that these things were happening at the time, that their very existence was nearly lost. Slavery by Another Name, a documentary film based on Douglas A. Blackmon’s Pulitzer Prize–winning book, turns that belief on its head. The project will kick off at the end of February with an online OVEE screening and panel discussion to introduce the initiative to a wide group of educators and encourage them to participate in workshops and use the educational materials in their classrooms. An edited transcript of the interview is below. Doubleday. The PBS documentary Slavery by Another Name explores post-emancipation slavery in the United States. The film is based on a Pulitzer Prize-winning book by Blackmon and was produced in conjunction with Twin Cities Public Television. The 90-minute documentary Slavery by Another Name translated into Portuguese. That really helped visualize what it was like to be arrested, picked up for vagrancy, and you see a young man just being hauled off and sent off to work in a prison camp, and of course see some of those conditions, all of which we did through a combination of re-enactments and photographs. Slavery by Another Name challenges one of our country’s most cherished assumptions: the belief that slavery ended with Abraham Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation of 1863. Based on Blackmon’s research, Slavery by Another Name spans eight decades, from 1865 to 1945, revealing the interlocking forces in both the South and the North that enabled this “neoslavery” to begin and persist. And actually, we also intercut a scene with a descendant of the guy who whipped him and whipped other people in the mines. is now the focus of a new educational project from. Black Enterprise: Director Sam Pollard Discusses Slavery By Another Name. Slavery by Another Name is now the focus of a new educational project from tpt National Productions, Slavery by Another Name: Digital Storytelling, funded by the Open Society Campaign for Black Male Achievement. De ellos, 4 millones fueron vendidos a Brasil, 2.5 millones a las colonias españolas, incluidas México y La Española (Haití y República Dominicana) y otras partes de Latinoamérica y Sudamérica, y alrededor de 400,000 a los Estados Unidos. El documental de PBS Esclavitud con otro nombre explora la esclavitud tras la emancipación en los Estados Unidos. One of our most cherished assumptions as Americans is that slavery in this country ended with the Emancipation Proclamation of 1863. But slavery and its legacy are not unique to the U.S. During the years of the transatlantic slave trade, approximately 1500-1866, over 12 million slaves were shipped from Africa to the Americas. The book is called Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black People in America from the Civil War to World War II. 13th Amendment Summary: The Prison of Slavery By the 1920s, civil rights groups and labor unions were demanding that the convict lease system be ended. MPR's Cathy Wurzer discussed the documentary, "Slavery By Another Name," with author Douglas Blackmon and executive producer Catherine Allan. Kellogg Foundation, viewers in Brazil, Mexico and Haiti, as well as around the world, can now watch Slavery by Another Name online in English, Portuguese, Spanish, and Haitian Creole, accompanied by Discussion Guides describing each country’s history with slavery. Directed by Sam Pollard, produced by Catherine Allan and Douglas Blackmon, written by Sheila Curran Bernard, the tpt National Productions project is based on the 2009 Pulitzer Prize-winning book by Blackmon. Why did you focus on him when there wasn't much evidence of his existence? Cathy Wurzer: The history most of us read, of course, indicates that the tough laws passed post-Reconstruction, the prison laborers, and then later the chain gangs, stemmed from the high crime rate among African Americans — with the narrative that these folks didn't have the social or cultural tools to handle freedom. © 2020 Open Society Foundations, some rights reserved. Download the Discussion Guides in English: Dokimantè PBS la Yon Lòt Non Pou Esklavaj eksplore esklavaj apre emansipasyon Ozetazini. Pero la esclavitud y su legado no son exclusivos de los Estados Unidos. Questions? Sharecropping was like an entrance with no exit. And as I began to research, even I, as someone who had been paying attention to some of these sorts of things for a long time and was open to alternative explanations, even I was fairly astonished when I put it together, basically by going county by county and finding the criminal arrest records and the jail records in county after county after county from this period of time and seeing that if there had been crime waves, there had to have been records of crimes and people being arrested for crimes. It's one of the very few primary source voices from that period of time from a witness actually inside these coal mines and inside these conditions. Using archival photographs and dramatic re-enactments filmed on location in Alabama and Georgia, it tells the forgotten stories of both victims and perpetrators of neoslavery and includes interviews with their descendants living today. The 90-minute documentary Slavery by Another Name translated into Spanish. Mas a escravidão e seu legado não são exclusivos dos EUA. And the documentary is full of ... amazing documentation of forced labor in coal mines and brick factories and turpentine farms. Produced by tpt National Productions and directed by Sam Pollard, Slavery by Another Name was a selection of the 2012 Sundance Film Festival and aired on PBS that same year as part of Black History Month. Pandan peryòd komès esklavaj transatlantik la, kite te anviwon 1500-1866, yo te pimpe plis pase 12 milyon esklav afriken nan Lamerik. With generous funding from the W.K. But when I first began the really hardcore research into all of this, one of the main questions that I had to answer was that it was clear that all of a sudden the South had gone from this place where there were no black people incarcerated — because slaves had been under the purview of their ostensible owners, so there were no black people in prison or being arrested for the most part — to this place that had this massive population of black people being held by the state and sold into this labor situations. Of these, 4 million were sold to Brazil, 2.5 million to Spanish colonies including Mexico and Hispaniola (Haiti and Dominican Republic) and other parts of Latin and South America, and around 400,000 to the United States. There's no evidence that that ever happened. All rights reserved. And so we sort of tried to build a collage with descendants who are living today and historical characters.