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Reflections on the Chain Gang System

Season 1 | 1m 21s

Descendant Bernard Kinsey expresses his reactions to the chain gang system and its effect of black Americans.

Major funding for SLAVERY BY ANOTHER NAME provided by National Endowment for the Humanities, W.K. Kellogg Foundation, The Coca-Cola Company and CPB/PBS Diversity & Innovation Fund. Additional funding by Georgia-Pacific, KeyBank Foundation and Merck.
Extras
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The 90-minute documentary Slavery by Another Name translated into Haitian-Creole.
The 90-minute documentary Slavery by Another Name translated into Portuguese.
The 90-minute documentary Slavery by Another Name translated into Spanish.
Learn how post-Civil War practices and laws created a new form of slavery in the South.
Go behind the scenes for the making of SLAVERY BY ANOTHER NAME.
Douglas A. Blackmon shares how the project Slavery by Another Name evolved.
Slavery by Another Name explores the new forms of slavery after the Civil War.
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The 90-minute documentary Slavery by Another Name translated into Spanish.
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