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SLAVERY BY ANOTHER NAME is a 90-minute documentary that challenges one of Americans' most cherished assumptions: the belief that slavery in this country ended with the Emancipation Proclamation. The film tells how even as chattel slavery came to an end in 1865, thousands of African Americans were pulled back into forced labor with shocking force and brutality.

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Slavery by Another Name
Full episodes
3 VIDEOS

Slavery Full Program
1:30:00 Air Date 02/13/12

The Making of SLAVERY
00:00 Air Date 02/13/12

The Bricks We Stand On
20:00 Air Date 02/13/12
Previews
3 VIDEOS

Slavery by Another Name - Preview
0:30 Air Date 02/13/12

Slavery by Another Name Clip
1:15 Air Date 02/13/12

Slavery by Another Name Promo
0:30 Air Date 02/13/12
Shorts
81 VIDEOS

History is Dynamic
00:00 Air Date 03/13/12

The Legacy of Supremacy
00:00 Air Date 02/18/12

Peonage and Pearl Harbor
00:00 Air Date 02/13/12

The Rise and Fall of Reconstruction
00:00 Air Date 02/13/12

What is Peonage?
00:00 Air Date 02/13/12

The Good, the Bad and the Worst
00:00 Air Date 02/13/12

Reflections on W.D. McCurdy
00:00 Air Date 02/13/12

New Systems of Exploitation
00:00 Air Date 02/13/12

The System of Sharecropping
00:00 Air Date 02/13/12

What are the Reconstruction Amendments?
00:00 Air Date 02/13/12

Reflections on the Great Migration
00:00 Air Date 02/13/12

Brutalization and Coal Mining
00:00 Air Date 02/13/12
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