2022-04-04

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Knowing Better

First there were the Pilgrims, then there was the Civil War. After MLK ended segregation, racism disappeared from the country. If the Standard American History Myth that we've all been taught is incorrect - When was the last slave freed in America?

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BetterU Animations by Crafting with the Nuts

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Voice-overs and Warren Reese Speech by Atun-Shei Films

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Frederick Douglass Speech by Jabrils

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-Books-

Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II (2010)

Douglas A. Blackmon

https://amzn.to/3LE9EEo

-Documentaries-

Slavery by Another Name (2012) - https://www.pbs.org/video/slavery-another-name-slavery-video/

The Long Shadow (2017) - https://www.kanopy.com/video/long-shadow

Reconstruction: The Second Civil War (2004) - https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/films/reconstruction/

13th (2016) - https://www.netflix.com/browse?jbv=80091741

Amend: The Fight for America (2021) - https://www.netflix.com/browse?jbv=80219054

The African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross (2013) - https://www.kanopy.com/video/african-americans-collection

-Youtube Videos-

Joseph House Lecture Series: Florida's Convict Lease System and its Legacy of Prison Abuse - https://youtu.be/A_YG69UV76g

Convict Leasing, Forced Labor, Theft of Black Wealth: The Case of the Chattahoochee Brick Company - https://youtu.be/Bqf0aU82OKE

-Other-

https://www.crmvet.org/info/lithome.htm

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Video Credits -

What I Can Teach You About Racism - https://youtu.be/Htm8TuB-5Hc

Why the 3/5ths Compromise Was Anti-Slavery - https://youtu.be/giBRnKRWR6M

Leo & Layla's History Adventures with Frederick Douglass - https://youtu.be/5BfE-GRNJqA

Frederick Douglass: From Slave to Statesman - https://youtu.be/FATFaZ7VOIc

Was the Civil War About Slavery? - https://youtu.be/pcy7qV-BGF4

The Inconvenient Truth About the Democratic Party - https://youtu.be/g_a7dQXilCo

What's Wrong With The 1619 Project? - https://youtu.be/OrqFbyTABmQ

Photo Credits -

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1uFQAsGox-SamCxb95rz0A347EH9gOY8HO6aw0qESfzs/edit?usp=sharing

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Production Assistant - Rozarah

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Research Assistant - Jesspsettle

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Music - Michael Cotten

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Channel Art - PoetheWonderCat

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Hashtags: #history #politics #slavery #neoslavery #convictleasing #debtpeonage #prisonlabor #prisonindustrialcomplex #blackcrime #convictlabor #reconstruction #segregation

0:00 Introduction

2:11 The Standard American History Myth

8:57 America’s Founding

17:29 Abolition

23:53 Civil War

32:29 Reconstruction

36:09 Black Codes

40:14 Convict Leasing

45:58 Debt Peonage

57:00 Jim Crow

1:06:26 Involuntary Servitude

1:11:26 Conclusion

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