Did slavery remain until 1961?
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Submitted by victorpatton on Mon, 2007-10-15 11:18. |
A few weeks ago I rented the Lars von Trier film "Manderlay" -- a story set in the 1930s about a fictional southern plantation where whites and blacks lived as if slavery had never ended.
The story made for an interesting commentary on race -- but I was always under the impression that slavery was over in all corners of the U.S. after June 19, 1865, when Union General Gordon Granger arrived with federal troops on Galveston Island, Texas, to enforce the laws of land emancipating blacks from slavery.
If the story below is to be believed, however, slavery didn't end everywhere in the U.S. after June 19, 1865:
For the story, click here:
This story was published in People Magazine:
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