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

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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.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Bacon, Michael, 1948- (Composer)
Corporate Authors: TPT National Productions
Two Dollars and a Dream (Firm)
PBS Distribution (Firm)
Other Authors: Pollard, Sam (Producer, Director)
Bernard, Sheila Curran (Screenwriter)
Fishburne, Laurence, III, 1961- (Narrator)
Pollard, Jason L., 1978- (Film editor)
Blackmon, Douglas A.
Language:English
Language and/or Writing System:
Subtitled for the deaf and hard of hearing.
Published: [United States] : PBS Distribution, [2012], ©2012.
Edition:Widescreen.
Series:Rovi Media Collection. Movies.
Subjects:
African Americans > Civil rights > History > 19th century.
African Americans > Civil rights > History > 20th century.
African Americans > Employment > History.
African Americans > Crimes against > History.
African American prisoners > Social conditions.
Forced labor > United States > History.
Convict labor > United States > History.
Slavery > United States > History.
United States > Race relations > History > 19th century.
United States > Race relations > History > 20th century.
Documentary television programs.
Nonfiction television programs.
Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
Genre:
Documentary television programs.
Nonfiction television programs.
Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
Physical Description:1 videodisc (approximately 90 min.) : sound, color with black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Format: Video DVD

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