In the documentary Slavery by Another Name, Douglas A. Blackmon disembowels one of our most basic expectations that slavery in America terminated with the Civil War. Blackmon uncovers stunning evidence that the exercise of slavery continued well into the 20th century. And Blackman just does not refer to the bondage of black sharecroppers unable to extricate themselves economically from farming.
Blackman explains free men and women forced into industrial servitude, bound by chains, encountered with inhumane living conditions and subject to physical torment.
Anything that resembled a crime such as gambling, false pretense, going to work for another proprietor without permission, selling cotton after dark, etc. were all crimes that would result in arrest in Alabama in 1890. Blackmon explains this relating occurrence after occurrence, and an arrest could mean an expensive and hefty fine. If the blamed could not pay this expensive fine, they would possibly be imprisoned. Alabama, one of the Southern states, profitably rented these lawbreakers to private establishments.
As far as the steel, turpentine, lumber brick, coal and other goods described in this documentary, a solid stream of labors amounted to an inexpensive basis of energy. And the health and safety of these labours was seen as none of the employer’s problem or concern. With that being said, when it comes to the case convicting John Clarke, who was fined for “gaming” on April 11, 1903, would be subject to a ten day shift at the Sloss-Sheffield mine in Coalburg, Alabama, which would remove his fine. Even though it was only ten days to remove the fine, Clarke would have to work in the mines for an extra 104 days for Clarke to be able to pay the dues to the sheriff, county clerk and witnesses who appeared at Clarke’s trial. As John Clarke began this work in the mines, Clarke only worked for thirty-three days before passing away in this incarceration at the mines to pay these fines back. The death of Clarke was claimed to be of a “falling rock”. At the same time as Clarke was serving his time, there were approximately twenty-five other men in the Alabama work camps. Blackmon tells this, sad but true, story of how the emancipation of slave’s left Southern plantations, not just financially but intellectually deprived because of the slaves expertise and knowledge could be essential. Essential to the south being reshaped because of the rise of industry, or the blacks that never knew about slavery were now exposed to slavery, or even how slavery caused issues with efforts to unite and organize …show more content…
Green Cottenham was an African American who was born in the 1880s. Cottenham was also born free. Green Cottenham’s story got Slavery by Another Name off to an unstable start, only because Blackmon’s tale was basically theoretical. This documentary emphasizes that if there were slaves in the steel companies that developed in Tennessee Iron, Coal, and Railroad Company and became a major offender, this would correspond to African American enslavement that occurred with Nazi’s in Germany. This would also stress that African American slaves lack of education and inability to read or write, would mean there would not be anything recording these terrible occurrences. Therefore, knowing this makes Green Cottenham’s story hard to relate and
Blackman explains free men and women forced into industrial servitude, bound by chains, encountered with inhumane living conditions and subject to physical torment.
Anything that resembled a crime such as gambling, false pretense, going to work for another proprietor without permission, selling cotton after dark, etc. were all crimes that would result in arrest in Alabama in 1890. Blackmon explains this relating occurrence after occurrence, and an arrest could mean an expensive and hefty fine. If the blamed could not pay this expensive fine, they would possibly be imprisoned. Alabama, one of the Southern states, profitably rented these lawbreakers to private establishments.
As far as the steel, turpentine, lumber brick, coal and other goods described in this documentary, a solid stream of labors amounted to an inexpensive basis of energy. And the health and safety of these labours was seen as none of the employer’s problem or concern. With that being said, when it comes to the case convicting John Clarke, who was fined for “gaming” on April 11, 1903, would be subject to a ten day shift at the Sloss-Sheffield mine in Coalburg, Alabama, which would remove his fine. Even though it was only ten days to remove the fine, Clarke would have to work in the mines for an extra 104 days for Clarke to be able to pay the dues to the sheriff, county clerk and witnesses who appeared at Clarke’s trial. As John Clarke began this work in the mines, Clarke only worked for thirty-three days before passing away in this incarceration at the mines to pay these fines back. The death of Clarke was claimed to be of a “falling rock”. At the same time as Clarke was serving his time, there were approximately twenty-five other men in the Alabama work camps. Blackmon tells this, sad but true, story of how the emancipation of slave’s left Southern plantations, not just financially but intellectually deprived because of the slaves expertise and knowledge could be essential. Essential to the south being reshaped because of the rise of industry, or the blacks that never knew about slavery were now exposed to slavery, or even how slavery caused issues with efforts to unite and organize …show more content…
Green Cottenham was an African American who was born in the 1880s. Cottenham was also born free. Green Cottenham’s story got Slavery by Another Name off to an unstable start, only because Blackmon’s tale was basically theoretical. This documentary emphasizes that if there were slaves in the steel companies that developed in Tennessee Iron, Coal, and Railroad Company and became a major offender, this would correspond to African American enslavement that occurred with Nazi’s in Germany. This would also stress that African American slaves lack of education and inability to read or write, would mean there would not be anything recording these terrible occurrences. Therefore, knowing this makes Green Cottenham’s story hard to relate and