Slavery By Another Name

Haven’t played it out yet but loved it when I saw itOnline and fufnt get to see ut all the way through

This documentary should be part of American History and taught along with Juneteenth in or public school systems. Especially with the new Juneteenth holiday as to why there is a reason for the recognition of it inspite of the fact that many African Americans were still experiencing slavery in supposedly "freed states" post the Civil War outside of Texas 2 yrs after freeing the slaves in 1867. The midset of those suprressoors still holding them in bondage under "Peonage" their new form of slavery, which lasted for 80 years after Juneteenth. Where does it end? It's Systemic Racism and it continues to be that even now with January 6, 2021, and the deliberae decision not to investigate "America's Truth of Insurrection" in 2021, sends a message from the past. If we don't face the truth then we are living in the past and are bound to do the same thing again in our history. So, if your skin is brown or if you don't fit "the norm" than you are a target in the USA. "Truth hurts but lies kill". Haven't we seen enough bloodshed to realize this?

I highly recommend this to other teachers and professor and students that can handle the truth! And we thought American Slavery was bad. This is the way the government kept slaves after Emancipation through the prison slave system. If you tried to escape you got shot with no repercussion because you were just an escaped prisoner. These Black men were traded out to other prisons to work in coal mines worse than any white coal miners. They were imprisoned for standing outside called "vagrancy laws" and put to work in labor camps called prisons. Many were just dumped into the river if they died or did not comply. I liked the commentary by the historians both Black and white that added insights into the stories and pictures and video. One lady had thought that her wealthy great-grandfather(?) was a "self-made man" she found out where his wealth came from and was visibly shaken by it. It finally talked about how the wealth from this legal slave industry poured in and that was my main interest, see how whites created capital for generations to come without paying the Black man or his family anything. These types of prisons were not really shut down until the 1960's. Now there is still an overabundance of Black men in the Prison Industrial Complex not different than what they had back then. More humanitarian groups are out protesting the unequal distribution of the law against men of color for similar offenses as white men. The prisons are privatized and are paid based upon the volume of prisoners in the prison. It is a cycle with the same type of prisoner - Black males.

Gut-wrenching to watch, mainly because it rang so true. I can only hope that my relatives from Georgia before and after the War between the States were among the people who never owned or dealt with slaves, any of the indentured servants or the renting out of African-American prisoners. I'm pretty sure that the Veals in my direct line were not involved, but even having said that, my genealogy research has found dozens of African-Americans in U.S. Census records who bear my surname. In Alabama, this year (2015), I intentionally visited a black woman in Alabama with whom I share the exact same surname, Veal. We talked for about 2 hours or more on her front porch. She told me that she'd never met a white person with the surname Veal. I told her that likewise I'd never met an African-American with the surname Veal, though I did know that there were probably hundreds in census records in Alabama, Georgia, Mississippi, Louisiana and probably many other states. While trying to find this woman (who was about my age) I went to several homes in that area of Alabama, where I'd learned that other black Veal families had lived at one time or another. I found no other Veals in that area, but everyone I talked to was extremely friendly and as helpful as they could. In most cases, they invited me in there homes and we talked for an hour or more.

Slavery By Another Name was very informative and enlighten to the fact that people still feel and thing so different about another human-being of a different race. i'm truly that i'm older and wiser to not allow something like this affect or upset me. It was disturbing in the fact that people would still think and feel that people of a different color is less or beneath them. the DVD re tracked a major part of American history that is still having linger affect on a generation of people. the story told how some people was unable or willing to allow other people to be free and apart of the country. some very confuse people found way and means to keep another human-being in slavery by any means necessary, the cruelty of depriving a human-being of the very basic right of freedom and the pursuit of happiness still amaze me how this country is functional. the sad part of the story is that a new form of slavery is still in existence right now. the factories and the right to work laws; part-times workers and contractual workers are all new way and means of enslave a people base on color. i work for a program that help people get ready to go back into society after being incarceration; i had second thought about allow the client to see this movie. the movie is not for everybody. i hope that someday we can move past the color line and start treating each other a human-being and not as property on second-hand material. they should be a shame of themselves and call themselves human-being. i'm done.

Excellent film to enrich the experience and the knowledge by having read Douglas A. Blackmons book. And any Viewer of this film should do that, read Blackmons "Slavery by another name. I thought i did know about the end of slavery, but after having read the book and seen the film, i became aware of how little i really knew and how important these facts about this ongoing form of slavery by another Name up to the 1940s are to understand even the Situation after this extreme exploitation of human beeings has ended. Even after the 1950/60s, after all what has been achieved by the civil rights movement in the second half of the twentieth century, looking into the timeframe, seeing this kind of slavery up to the generation of today middle aged people, so not as some kind of distant history but very close, one understands better the struggles in the United States as described by Diane McWorther, "Carry me" or even the situation in american prisons today as described by Michelle Alexander in "The New Jim Crow". Without taking position, as reader from Germany i am too far away from it, to understand the turmoil around the case of the shooting of Trayvon Martin by George Zimmerman, you have to understand not only the situation of black People today but of what has happened till the 19ths century.

Excellent

It really sickens me to see how people could treat other humans like the way they do/did... Why can't everyone just be treated equally.... This movie actually had me in tears and feeling sick to my stomach... But it is an actual good movie

Production value is poor. Historical contents was good.