Douglas A. Blackmon

A documentary film which is based on Blackmon's book and also titled Slavery by Another Name, was aired on February 13, 2012, on PBS stations. The film can be viewed in its entirety on the PBS website.

In 2008, Blackmon published Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II, which explored the history of peonage and convict lease labor in the South after the American Civil War. He revealed the stories of tens of thousands of slaves and their descendants who journeyed into freedom after Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation and then journeyed back into the shadow of involuntary servitude, which lasted into the 20th century. In 2009, Blackmon was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction for Slavery by Another Name.

Blackmon first worked as a reporter for the Arkansas Democrat and he later worked as the managing editor of the Daily Record, both in Little Rock. He later moved to Atlanta, where he worked as a reporter at The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. In 1995, he began working for The Wall Street Journal and in 2012 became its Atlanta bureau chief. While there, he shared the 2011 Gerald Loeb Award for Large Newspapers for the story "Deep Trouble".

Douglas A. Blackmon (born 1964) is an American writer and journalist who won a Pulitzer Prize in 2009 for his book, Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II.