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Descendant Bernard Kinsey reacts to convict labor.
1:33
Historian Khalil Muhammad explains the convict leasing period.
1:02
Descendant Tonya Groomes talks about her role as family historian.
1:05
Historian Pete Daniel discusses the Alonzo Bailey case and how it related to peonage.
2:01
Author Douglas A. Blackmon tells the ruling of Judge Jones and the panic it caused.
2:56
Historian James Grossman explains why black Southerners left the South.
1:14
Historian Pete Daniel explains factors that led to the Great Migration.
2:32
Historian James Grossman explains how Emancipation changed the Southern labor.
3:38
Historian Risa Goluboff explains how The New Deal was a watershed moment.
2:31
Historian Risa Goluboff explains prosecution of peonage cases after Pearl Harbor attacks.
2:04
Historian Risa Goluboff describes the rise of political progressivism.
2:36
Historian Harry Lembeck explains progressivism.
