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Black History Month: ‘Slavery by Another Name’

Thursday, February 28th, 2013

Video: “Slavery by Another Name”

American schools teach students that slavery ended with Abraham Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation in 1863. A PBS documentary explores the forced labor by newly freed black slaves between the Civil War and World War II.

“Slavery by Another Name,” based on the book by the same title, tells the story of the South through research into documents and interviews with scholars. The 90-minute film also features interviews with descendants of victims of forced labor.

Filming took place in Birmingham and Atlanta. It first aired on PBS in February 2012, a month after screening at Sundance.

Author Douglas A. Blackmon won the Pulitzer Prize for his book [Amazon aff. link] in 2009. Birmingham and Shelby County are featured prominently as centers for virtual re-enslavement of black citizens.

“Slavery by Another Name”

not written in history

Thursday, February 28th, 2013

What happened is weird
mix of what’s written and what’s
forgotten in time.

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ode to the block captain

Wednesday, February 27th, 2013

From behind the blinds,
every jogger looks mean and
each dog a mongrel.

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on a damp winter’s night

Tuesday, February 26th, 2013

Jacket stained with rain,
he darted through shadowy
alleys bound for home.

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on the whole, an average 14 years

Monday, February 25th, 2013

Seven years of feast
and seven years of famine.
Early climate change?

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centuries of lifetimes

Sunday, February 24th, 2013

The denizens of
Genesis endure hundreds
of years of boot-up.

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to have and have lot

Saturday, February 23rd, 2013

The meaning of Lot
has been lost among lurid
escapades and wine.

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brotherly hate

Friday, February 22nd, 2013

Brothers of the good
book often embody less-
than-holy kinship.

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two of every non-fish

Thursday, February 21st, 2013

Noah brought the beasts
and birds aboard, worrying
not about sea life.

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in the beginning

Wednesday, February 20th, 2013

Two kids walked through a
quiet garden. One hungered.
Then both were banished.

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speaking in many tongues

Tuesday, February 19th, 2013

Before Babel, we
spoke as one, with a certain
je ne sais quoi. Merde.

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keep on leading in the free world

Monday, February 18th, 2013

Millard, Zachary,
Rutherford, Chester, Grover,
this day’s for them, too.

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the green wall

Sunday, February 17th, 2013

A certain calmness
radiated from the leaves
breathing in silence.

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showdown in the lunchroom

Saturday, February 16th, 2013

The warriors wolfed down
trays of soft tacos, not for
nourishment but sport.

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horror at sea

Friday, February 15th, 2013

The shrimp cocktail was
somewhat small. The towels were
passably fluffy.

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