Video Discussion Questions: Slavery by Another Name 1. What types of crimes" could cause you to get arrested in the South? 2. In what types of Southern industries and businesses were prisoners forced to work? 3. Why was prisoner labor so profitable for businesses in the South? 4. About what fraction of prisoners were under the age of sixteen in many work camps? 5. Were women used in work camps? 6. Define Peonage: 7. How many African Americans moved out the South between 1910 and 1930? 8. How did President Wilson negatively change the federal government? 9. What type of work did chain gangs typically do? 10. What were the loan interest rates that many sharecroppers often received in order live and work on the land? 11. Why was the verdict in the John Williams trial so unique? 12. How did World War II help bring about an end to peonage in the United States? 13. How many people faced the South's criminal justice system in the 80 years following the Civil War 14. About how many known prisoners died in the prison leasing system in the South? 15. List three new facts/ideas you learned by watching this video 16. By 1890, the South's state prison population had soared to nearly 19,000 and nearly ninety percent of those incarcerated were African American. What lingering effects could this hold for America now? Do you think there are any contemporary connections between the criminalization of black life and prison population rates