Slavery By Another Name
By: Greg Braxton, Los Angeles Times
Slavery By Another Name," a new PBS documentary, explores and upends what producers say is a widely accepted notion: that slavery in America came to a halt with the Emancipation Proclamation. The film shows that while chattel slavery ended in the South in 1865, thousands of African Americans were pushed into forced labor that exposed them to brutality, abuse and death.
Or as narrator Laurence Fishburne says introducing the film, African Americans "were no longer slaves, but not yet free." Men were arrested, forced to work without pay, and were mistreated by cruel masters. The system of forced labor took place in the North and South, and lasted into the 20th century.
"It could have been different and should have been different," said Douglas A. Blackmon, author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning book that inspired the film and gave it its title, during a session during the PBS portion of the first day of the Television Critics Assn. press tour. Blaming the government, Blackmon called the continuation of slavery "an astonishing failure of modern society."
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Prior to opening the Human Communication Institute, PS was a full-time, tenured Professor and worked for a variety of institutions helping to build Speech Communication Departments and Programs. Teaching institutions included: San Diego City and Mesa Colleges (CA), Clark Atlanta University, Georgia Perimeter (Dekalb College) (GA), Bunker Hill College, Northeastern University, (MA) MiraCosta College and Southwestern College (CA). In addition, she worked as a professional actor, musician, choreographer and director of Community Theater for many years.
Published author specializing in Personal Development using WORD Power as her major focus of writing: Poetry, Short Stories, Business Articles, Scholarly articles and Books.
In addition, PS enjoys writing about historical and current issues relevant to African American personal and community social health and enrichment.
Authored Books:
The Art and Science of Communication: Tools for Effective Communication in the Workplace, John Wiley & Sons, 2008
The Laws of Communication, (contributor) John Wiley & Sons, 2009
Wake Up Women! (contributor) 2009
Hobbies include: Acting, dancing, reading, cooking, mentoring youth, caring for animals and the elderly, and international travel