Slavery by Another Name
Monday, February 28 at 8pm on MPT
Slavery by Another Name
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Learn how post-Civil War practices and laws created a new form of slavery in the South.
About the program
A Sundance Film Festival selection for 2012, this documentary based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning book by Wall Street Journal senior writer Douglas A. Blackmon explores the little-known story of the post-Emancipation era and the labor practices and laws that effectively created a new form of slavery in the South that persisted well into the 20th century.