An Unlikely Response

Season 1

About the Episode

"The article generated a response unlike anything else. Altogether, millions of mostly obscure entries in the public record offer details of a forced labor system of monotonous enormity."

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Extras

Extended Preview

Learn how a de facto slavery system persisted for Black Southerners after the Civil War.

1:16
Slavery by Another Name Preview

Learn how post-Civil War practices and laws created a new form of slavery in the South.

0:30
The Birth of Jim Crow

Khalil Muhammad describes how the era of "separate but equal" came into being.

2:18
Reflections on a Company Town

Bobby Clayton explains the commissaries and schools in the company town he grew up in.

3:40
Reflections on Segregation

Vanessa Cottenham shares her memories of segregation in Montevallo, AL.

1:49
Pig Laws and Imprisonment

Historian Khalil Muhammad explains the establishment of Pig Laws.

2:24
Reflections on Emancipation

Descendant Tonya Groomes reflects on how slaves must have felt at the end of the Civil War

1:27
Reflections on Labor

Descendant Rod Frazer remembers the types of labor on WD McCurdy's plantation.

2:48
Reflections on History

Descendant Rod Frazer reacts to his ancestor's role in convict leasing.

2:46
Reflections on Jim Crow

Descendant Tonya Groomes talks to her dad about his experiences growing up in the South.

3:06

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