Film Screening: Slavery by Another Name (2/2, 2/4)

As part of the Humanities Forum series, on Monday, February 2 and Wednesday, February 4, there will be screenings of the film Slavery by Another Name. They will take place at noon each day in the Albin O. Kuhn Library Gallery. Slavery by Another Name explores a reality that often went unacknowledged: a huge system of forced, unpaid labor, mostly affecting Southern black men, that lasted from the 1800s until World War II. Based on the Pulitzer-Prize-winning book by Douglas Blackmon, the film Slavery by Another Name tells the story of black men who were forced to work as convict laborers in …