Jul

23 2014

Film screening "Slavery by Another Name"

7:00PM - 9:00PM  

Finkelstein Memorial Library Route 59 West
Spring Valley, NY 10977

http://www.holocauststudies.org

Contact Lisa Stenchever
845-574-4099
lisas@holocauststudies.org

Slavery by Another Name, narrated by Laurence Fishburne, is a 90-minute documentary that challenges one of Americans' most cherished assumptions: that slavery in this country ended with the Emancipation Proclamation. The film tells how even as chattel slavery came to an end in the South after the Civil War, new systems of involuntary servitude took its place with shocking force and brutality. The film documents how, for more than 80 years, thousands of African Americans, often guilty of no crime at all, were arrested, compelled to work without pay, repeatedly bought and sold, and coerced to do the bidding of white masters. Tolerated by both the North and South, forced labor lasted well into the 20th century.

Sponsor: Created Equal Partnership of Rockland County