The Gist of Freedom
is pleased to present in conjunction with
The Historic Malcolm X and Dr. Betty Shabazz Center
A Film Screening:
Slavery By Another Name
with Filmmaker Sam Pollard!
Saturday February 16, 2013
@7PM
The Malcolm X & Dr. Betty Shabazz Memorial and Educational Center
$10 DONATIONS
The Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution officially outlaws slavery and involuntary servitude, except as punishment for a crime.
It was passed by the Senate on April 8, 1864, by the House on January 31, 1865, and adopted on December 6, 1865. On December 18, Secretary of State William H. Seward proclaimed it to have been adopted.
It was the first of the three Reconstruction Amendments adopted after the American Civil War.
the Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War Two, the post-Civil War practice of forcing convicts to labor for white profit was more directly rooted in the infamous institution of slavery, more widespread a practice, and much more devastating to ordinary African-American lives, than we had yet grasped.
- Heather Ann Thompson
There are more African Americans under correctional control today-- in prison or jail on probation or Parole--then were enslaved in 1850, a decade before the Civil War began-
Those who don't know their history quickly become History!Michelle Alexander, Author The New Jim Crow
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Filmmaker Sam Pollard Screening
 SLAVERY
By Another Name
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 "This groundbreaking film illuminates black Americans' lingering suspicions of the criminal justice system. The false imprisonment of black men has its history in an ignominious economic system that depended on coerced labor and didn't flinch from savagery toward fellow human beings. Blackmon's exhaustive reportage should put an end to the oft-repeated slander that black Americans tend toward lawlessness."As this Pulitzer Prize-winning author makes clear in Slavery by Another Name:
the Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War Two, the post-Civil War practice of forcing convicts to labor for white profit was more directly rooted in the infamous institution of slavery, more widespread a practice, and much more devastating to ordinary African-American lives, than we had yet grasped.
- Heather Ann Thompson
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click here to view----> Slavery By Another Name
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 A panel discussion with
Sam Pollard, Filmmaker: Michael Cord
Avenging The Ancestors Coalition
immediately following the screening!!!
 Michael Cord is a Philadelphia criminal defense attorney, community activist, founding member of Avenging the Ancestors Coalition and self-described angriest black man in America. He also teaches at Temple and writes for the Philly Post about race, politics and the American justice system.
 Moderator: Roy Paul is a highly sought after youth commentator specializing in the areas of youth education, social and economic justice, and the advancement of African Americans in modern pop culture and politics. Paul made history when he was elected the youngest African-American to ever be elected to a school board in New York State at the age of 19. He is now a regular on-air contributor for WABC 7 in New York.
 "Dr. Walter Greason is the CEO of the International Center for Metropolitan Growth, a company dedicated to revitalizing working class neighborhoods. He is also author of the new book, Suburban Erasure: How the Suburbs Ended the Civil Rights Movement in New Jersey."
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"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."
Lesley Gist
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