Slavery by another name [videorecording] / 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.
Format:
[videorecording] /
Publisher:
PBS Distribution,
Copyright Date:
c2012
Description:
1 videodisc (ca. 90 min.) : sd., col. with b&w sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Narrator, Laurence Fishburne. Based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning book by Douglas A. Blackmon. Originally produced for television in 2012. Release date: Feb. 14, 2012. Special features: "The bricks we stand on," Douglas A. Blackmon shares how the project evolved (18 min.); behind the scenes.
Summary:
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.
This resource is supported by the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act as administered by State Library of Iowa.