PBS, WETA: 'Slavery By Another Name' Post- Reconstruction Era, Now Showing

- Trailer. 'Slavery by Another Name' is a 90 min. documentary that challenges one of America's most cherished assumptions: the belief that slavery in this country ended with Abraham Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation of 1863. Based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning book by Wall Street Journal senior writer Douglas A. Blackmon.

The documentary explores the little-known story of the post-Emancipation era and the labor practices, namely debt peonage, convict leasing - 'neoslavery' and laws that effectively created a new form of slavery in the South that persisted well into the 20th century. (2012).
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