Slavery
Watch the video Slavery By Another Name in the Media and Videos File on your Menu, read the “Sharecropping Contract,” and/or explore the documentary’s website .Then answer 4 of the following questions, at least one from each section.
(https://www.pbs.org/tpt/slavery-by-another-name/classrooms-communities/ )
1. In what forms has forced labor been practiced in the past?What kinds of labor systems did the Freedmen’s Bureau agents report during Reconstruction and what kinds developed after?
2. How is the forced labor that was practiced in the American South after the Civil War connected to broader American history?
3. List of all the strides political, racial, social, economic that past generations have made since the various forms of forced labor took place in the American South after the Civil War?
4. When reading the chapter or watching the video Slavery By Another Name, which biography, story, event or fact or even speaker jumped out at you?