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Challenges One Of America's Most Cherished Assumptions, The Belief That Slavery In The U.s. Ended With Abraham Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation, By Telling The Harrowing Story Of How, In The South, A New System Of Involuntary Servitude Took Its Place With Shocking Force. Produced And Directed By Sam Pollard; Written By Sheila Curran Bernard; A Production Of Tpt National Productions In Association With Two Dollars & A Dream, Inc. Based On The Pulitzer Prize-winning Book By Douglas A. Blackmon. Also Issued As Part Of Boxed Set With Title: Created Equal: America's Civil Rights Struggle. Originally Produced For Television In 2012. Special Features Include: The Bricks We Stand On, Douglas A. Blackmon Shares How The Project Evolved (18 Min.); Behind The Scenes. Editor, Jason L. Pollard; Cinematography, Andrew Young; Original Score, Michael Bacon. Narrator, Laurence Fishburne. Dvd, Ntsc, Region 1, Widescreen, Stereo. Soundtrack In English, With Optional Subtitles For The Deaf And Hard Of Hearing.