Slavery By Another Name on PBS February 13th [View all]

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http://blogs.indiewire.com/shadowandact/sam-pollards-slavery-by-another-name-will-screen-at-pan-african-film-fest-before-pbs-tv-debut
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Long-time Spike Lee editor (as well as director and producer in his own right) Sam Pollard's feature documentary for PBS, titled Slavery By Another Name, will make its debut at the 2012 Sundance Film Festival, in the documentary competition section, and it's on my short list of films to see while I'm there, starting just over a week from today.

To recap... the film is based on the 2009 Pulitzer Prize-winning book by Wall Street Journal writer Douglas Blackmon, which "challenges the belief that slavery ended with 1863's Emancipation Proclamation... [recounting] how in the years following the Civil War, new forms of forced labor emerged in the American South, trapping hundreds of thousands of African Americans in a brutal system that lasted until the onset of World War II."
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I bought Blackmon's book on the recommendation of a DUer - it is excellent I won't miss this