Blackmon, Douglas A

A documentary film, based on the book by Douglas A. Blackmon, challenging the belief that slavery in the U.S. ended with Abraham Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation, and discussing how, in the South, a new system of involuntary servitude took its place, was tolerated by both the North and South, and continued into the twentieth century.

Describes the "Age of Neoslavery" in the U.S., a period between the Civil War and World War II during which tens of thousands of African-Americans were arbitrarily arrested and forced into labor to pay inordinately large fines.