Sally E. Hadden, Sylvia Frey, Peter Wood, Loren Schweninger, James Horton.
Summary
Details the social structures devised by the U.S. to enforce slavery and other racial oppression from the colonial era through the late 1800s. Slave patrols were created and laws requiring every free person to become a slave catcher were implemented. The documentary covers the rise of abolition and vigilance committees, slave revolts (including the Stono rebellion of 1739), as well as the development of the Ku Klux Klan after the Emancipation Proclamation.
