Blackman explains free men and women forced into industrial servitude, bound by chains, encountered with inhumane living conditions and subject to physical torment.
Anything that resembled a crime such as gambling, false pretense, going to work for another proprietor without permission, selling cotton after dark, etc. were all crimes that would result in arrest in Alabama in 1890. Blackmon explains this relating occurrence after occurrence, and an arrest could mean an expensive and hefty fine. If the blamed could not pay this expensive fine, they would possibly be imprisoned. Alabama, one of the Southern states, profitably rented these lawbreakers to private establishments.
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Green Cottenham was an African American who was born in the 1880s. Cottenham was also born free. Green Cottenham’s story got Slavery by Another Name off to an unstable start, only because Blackmon’s tale was basically theoretical. This documentary emphasizes that if there were slaves in the steel companies that developed in Tennessee Iron, Coal, and Railroad Company and became a major offender, this would correspond to African American enslavement that occurred with Nazi’s in Germany. This would also stress that African American slaves lack of education and inability to read or write, would mean there would not be anything recording these terrible occurrences. Therefore, knowing this makes Green Cottenham’s story hard to relate and