- Tonight, February 13, 2012, at 9pm EST PBS will air Director <strong><a href="http://www.blackenterprise.com/2012/02/13/sam-pollard-discusses-slavery-by-another-name/">Sam Pollard</a></strong>'s gripping documentary, <em><strong><a href="http://www.slaverybyanothername.com/" target="_blank">Slavery By Another Name</a></strong></em>. Based on journalist Douglas Blackmon's Pulitzer Prize-winning book of the same name and narrated by actor <strong>Laurence Fishburne</strong>, the film takes a hard look at the paralleles between slavery and the prison system. Featuring intimate interviews with historians and descendants of slaves, as well as vivid reenactments, <em>Slavery By Another Name</em> makes for a powerful body of work by the longtime <strong>Spike Lee</strong> collaborator. <strong><a href="http://www.blackenterprise.com/2012/02/13/sam-pollard-discusses-slavery-by-another-name/">Click here</a></strong> to read Pollard's full interview with <strong>BlackEnterprise.com</strong> and review exclusive images from the doc on the following pages.
- Archival photo of Black convicts in prison stripes
Photo courtesy of the Library of Congress
- Prison official overseeing prison work detail
Image courtesy of the Library of Congress
- Archive photo of young Black convicts in prison barracks
Image courtesy of Getty
- Prisoner being disciplined by being hog tied to a pickaxe in the middle of prison grounds
Photo courtesy of Harry Ransom Center University of Texas at Austin
- Archival photo of African American prisoner on downtime during manual labor detail
Image courtesy of the Library of Congress
- Pollard (far left) directs a scene from Slavery By Another Name
- A reenactment scene from Slavery By Another name of convicts being escorted through the swamp
- Director Sam Pollard on set of Slavery By Another Name
- Acclaimed actor Laurence Fishburne lends his powerful voice as narrator of Slavery By Another Name, which airs February 13, 2012 on PBS
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I just finished watching this documentary. It is extremely powerful about how many African Americans were wrongfully convicted and sold by prisons to Steel, lumber, Coal and turpentine companies between the years of the Civil War and World War II.
I am in awe of the ignorance and greed that has fueled this country but I am also proud that I come from a lineage of people that never stopped fighting.
The thirteenth amendment sets the conditions for slavery and does not abolish slavery.
AMENDMENT XIII
Passed by Congress January 31, 1865. Ratified December 6, 1865.
Note: A portion of Article IV, section 2, of the Constitution was superseded by the 13th amendment.
Section 1.
Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.
Section 2.
Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.
http://www.archives.gov/exhibits/charters/constitution_amendments_11-27.html
I’m angry that I missed this–please spread the word that the producers did a VERY poor job of publicizing this! I hope PBS will repeat it….
You can watch it online here: http://www.pbs.org/sban
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c’est excellent et trop d’actualité. nous devons toujours dénoncer cet état de fait et promouvoir l’égalité et la justice entre les hommes
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