SLAVERY BY ANOTHER NAME This program challenges one of America's
most cherished assumptions: the belief that slavery in this
country ended with Abraham Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation
of 1863. This documentary tells a harrowing story of how in the
South, even as chattel slavery came to an end, new forms of
involuntary servitude, including convict leasing, debt slavery
and peonage, took its place with shocking force -- brutalizing
and ultimately circumscribing the lives of hundreds of thousands
of African Americans well into the 20th century. It was a system
in which men, 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 masters. The program spans eight
decades, from 1865 to 1945, revealing the interlocking forces in
both the South and the North that enabled this "neoslavery" to
begin and persist. Using archival photographs and dramatic re-
enactments, filmed on location in Alabama and Georgia, it tells
the forgotten st