*Slavery by Another Name" Film Showing and Discussion

*Slavery by Another Name – Saturday, Feb. 8th
at 1 p.m.  Film and Discussion with  Dr Mark Krasovic , Associate Director of the
Institute on Ethnicity, Culture, and the Modern Experience at Rutgers-Newark

It was a
shocking reality that often went unacknowledged, then and now: a huge system of
forced, unpaid labor, mostly affecting Southern black men, that lasted until
World War II. Based on the Pulitzer Prize–winning book by Douglas Blackmon, Slavery by Another Name tells the stories of men, charged with
crimes like vagrancy, and often guilty of nothing, who were bought and sold,
abused, and subjected to sometimes deadly working conditions as unpaid convict
labor.

Call the Library at 908-876-3596 or go to www.wtpl.org to sign up for this program.

*The Created Equal
film set is made possible through a
major grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities, as part of its Bridging

Cultures initiative, in partnership with the Gilder Lehrman Institute of

American History.