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  WHO:     THE GIST OF FREEDOM (WWW.BlackHistoryBLOG.COM)
                      In Partnership With
                  The Malcolm X & Dr. Betty Shabazz
                  Memorial And Educational Center  and 
                  ILYASAH SHABAZZ ENTERPRISES
                      PRESENT....

 WHAT:    SLAVERY BY ANOTHER NAME
                  With Emmy Award WInning Filmmaker, SAM POLLARD
                  A Special Screening and Panel Discussion

 WHEN:      Saturday, February 16th at 7:00 P.M.

 

 
 WHERE:  
The Malcolm X & Dr. Betty Shabazz 
                   Memorial And Educational Center
                        3940 Broadway (Btwn W. 165th & 166th  Streets), NYC
                        www.theshabazzcenter.org 212.568.1341 info@theshabazzcenter.org
       
 
                                                        $10.00 Suggested Donation   
             


Sam Pollard's film Slavery By Another Name:  Reveals a dirty secret, after the Civil War and slavery was declared unconstitutional, the South used forced Black labor to rebuild. The Thirteenth Amendment, in 1863, abolished slavery, however a caveat within it  "except as a punishment for crime" allowed Slavers to continue slavery by another name "Convict Leasing". African Americans were unjustly convicted of crimes, "The Black Codes" and no matter how insignificant - were many times worked  to death, on chain gangs and in other inhumane conditions.


PANELIST
Emmy Award Winner 
         
stephanie greason walter chet  



Quote: Author, Michelle Alexander  
"The New Jim Crow"
 
"The New Fugitive Slave Law was enacted in 1850. In exchange for the Gold in California's 1849 (The 49ers) Gold Rush the Slavers agreed to allow the North to admit California into the Union as a Free state. In addition the government agreed to pay a bounty for the Slavers' "Fugitives". Secondly, the New Fugitive Slave Law of 1850 deputized and rewarded any person for the "re-enslavement" of any Free Black person they suspected of being a "Fugitive". Prior to 1850, the law mandated a bounty hunter obtain a warrant before an arrest, thereby affording the Free African American due process. The Fugitive Slave Law of 1850, no longer required a warrant. Consequently thousands of Free African Americans were kidnapped and enslaved."


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