Slavery by another name [DVD] / produced and directed by Sam Pollard ; written by Sheila Curran Bernard ; a production of TPT National Productions in association with Two Dollars & A Dream, Inc.

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Title:

Slavery by another name [DVD] / produced and directed by Sam Pollard ; written by Sheila Curran Bernard ; a production of TPT National Productions in association with Two Dollars & A Dream, Inc.

Performer:

Narrator, Laurence Fishburne.

Distribution:

[Boston, MA] : PBS Distribution, [2012]

ISBN:

9781608836253

General Note:

Based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning book by Douglas A. Blackmon.

Originally produced for television in 2012.

Special features include: "The bricks we stand on," Douglas A. Blackmon shares how the project evolved (18 min.); behind the scenes.

Abstract:

Challenges one of America's most cherished assumptions, the belief that slavery in the U.S. ended with Abraham Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation, by telling the harrowing story of how, in the South, a new system of involuntary servitude took its place with shocking force.

Content Type:

two-dimensional moving image

Carrier Type:

videodisc

Reading Level:

Rating: TV-PG-L, V.

Geographic Term:

United States -- Race relations -- History -- 19th century.

United States -- Race relations -- History -- 20th century.

Added Author:

Pollard, Sam

Bernard, Sheila Curran