The ink is faded, the pages brittle. In 1878, Memphis rose from the ashes of yellow fever and war, its streets pulsing with the promise of Emancipation. But in the gilded offices of the city's most powerful men, a different ledger was kept—one not of dollars, but of souls. This is the story of a single, damning account book, discovered in a forgotten attic over a century later, that exposed "The Freedmen's Bureau of Industry": a monstrous scheme that used debt, deceit, and brutal force to re-ensnare thousands of Black men, women, and children into a hidden network of plantations, factories, and brothels. From the haunted banks of the Mississippi to the marble halls of corruption, a historian’s quest for truth becomes a race against those who still profit from the past's buried sins. The ledger is open. The reckoning begins.
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Reason to Watch:
This is more than a history documentary; it's a forensic thriller. Based on shocking real evidence, follow a gripping investigation that connects archival clues to present-day injustices, revealing how the shadow of slavery never truly left us and how one document can threaten to rewrite history.
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