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DESCRIPTION:Directed by Sam Pollard, this 2012 PBS film is based on Douglas A. 
 Blackmon's book, Slavery by Another Name - The Re-Enslavement of Black 
 Americans from the Civil War to World War II which has unearthed ugly 
 chapters of U.S. history that have been buried for decades.\n\nIn graphic 
 and truthful detail, Slavery by Another Name reveals the widespread use of 
 bonded labor after the Civil War and how this amounted to a new form of 
 slavery that incorporated many of the same inhuman conditions of brutal 
 confinement like shackles, whippings, hog-tying and water torture.\n\nUnder 
 laws specifically aimed at Black people, tens of thousands were arbitrarily 
 arrested for things like loitering and vagrancy or standing in the street, 
 hit with outrageous fines and charged with the costs of their own arrests. 
 Prisoners with no means to pay these "debts" were sold as forced laborers 
 to owners of coal mines, lumber camps, farm plantations, etc.  But they 
 never could pay their "debts" so they remained enslaved, sometimes for the 
 rest of their lives.  All this was part of the Jim Crow laws and a whole 
 system of legal segregation in the south.\n\nToday Black people are still 
 oppressed, with police murdering Blacks with impunity. There are more Black 
 men in prison today than there were enslaved in 1850. This film can give a 
 deeper understanding of the actual history of this country and the terrible 
 consequences of this by bringing out how slavery continued in new forms 
 after 1865 while the oppression of Black people continues in other forms up 
 to the present day.  Knowing this history is part of understanding why 
 these chains of oppression can never be broken under this system of 
 capitalism and why it will take an actual revolution to do away with this 
 oppression. \n https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2016/10/30/18792872.php
SUMMARY:"Slavery by Another Name" film showing and discussion
LOCATION:Revolution Books, 2444 DURANT AVENUE, Berkeley CA 94704
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2016/10/30/18792872.php
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