Created Equal Film Presentation: Slavery by Another Name

 It was a shocking reality that often went unacknowledged, then and now:
A huge system of forced, unpaid labor, mostly affecting Southern black
men, that lasted until World War II. Based on the Pulitzer-Prize-winning
book by Douglas Blackmon, Slavery by Another Name tells the stories of
men, charged with crimes like vagrancy, and often guilty of nothing, who
were bought and sold, abused, and subject to sometimes deadly working
conditions as unpaid convict labor. Interviews with the descendants of
victims and perpetrators resonate with a modern audience. Christina
Comer, who discovered how her family profited from the system, comments
that “the story is important no matter how painful the reality is.”

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