Discussion on Slavery by Another Name
Location
Library and Gallery, Albin O. Kuhn
Date & Time
February 9, 2015, 4:30 pm – 6:00 pm
Description
Greetings!
Dr. Spencer Crew, Robinson Professor of American, African American,
and Public History, George Mason University
By 1865, despite the promise of the Thirteenth Amendment, many former
slaves were not in reality free. Based on the Pulitzer‐Prize‐winning
book by Douglas Blackmon, the film 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 – a system mostly
affecting Southern black men that lasted until World War II.
Sponsored by the Africana Studies Department; the Albin O. Kuhn
Library and Gallery; the Dresher Center for the Humanities; and the
National Endowment for the Humanities, Created Equal: America's Civil
Rights Struggle
For more information:
http://artscalendar.umbc.edu/2011/04/17/panel-discussion-on-slavery-by-another-name/
and Public History, George Mason University
By 1865, despite the promise of the Thirteenth Amendment, many former
slaves were not in reality free. Based on the Pulitzer‐Prize‐winning
book by Douglas Blackmon, the film 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 – a system mostly
affecting Southern black men that lasted until World War II.
Sponsored by the Africana Studies Department; the Albin O. Kuhn
Library and Gallery; the Dresher Center for the Humanities; and the
National Endowment for the Humanities, Created Equal: America's Civil
Rights Struggle
For more information:
http://artscalendar.umbc.edu/2011/04/17/panel-discussion-on-slavery-by-another-name/
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