VICE - Investigating Modern Day Slavery in the Deep South (3.5 Million Views)

VICE's Akil Gibbons travels to Louisiana to meet “the slavery detective of the south,” genealogist Antoinette Harrell who tracks down cases of modern-day slavery and abusive labor practices. We talk to a man, Arthur Miller, whose family was held in slavery on a Mississippi plantation well into the 1960s. Antoinette explains how she uses archives and word of mouth on plantations to uncover stories of how slavery was perpetuated long after the Civil War ended.

The Slavery Detective of the South

Over 4 million views on VICE Facebook: Slavery might have ended on paper after the Civil War, but many white landowners did everything they could to exploit newly freed slaves well into the 20th century. Thousands of black laborers across the South were forced to work against their will as late as the 1960s—a new form of enslavement that went on in the shadows of rural America.