The Cotton Pickin Truth Still on the Plantation | movie | 2020 | Official Trailer - video Dailymotion

Mississippi Delta: this documentary, created in 2009, exposes slavery still in existence in USA's southeastern plantatio | dG1fNkg4ZDdJTWtSRnM

Transcript

00:00Well, you know, I came from a very poor family and we was in slavery. We didn't have food, clothes, shoes.

00:26I was raped at an early age. I said maybe before I was five, about the age of five, that I got raped many times by these owners of us.

00:47Well, when you stop and think about what you all have already documented, it's not shocking to me because this is America.

01:00I'm sorry.

01:12We all had been led to believe that somehow we were past slavery and its vestiges that

01:38we were moving on to a better day.

01:40Well, seeing the footage that I saw and realizing that many of my brothers and sisters are living

01:45in not only abject poverty, but all the vestiges of slavery, it was saddening to say the least.

01:52And it really tells me that here on Capitol Hill, we have to have lawmakers talking about

01:57this very subject.

01:58This is not something that's going away anytime soon.

02:01And this matter needs to be addressed at the highest levels of the governor.

02:04This is going to hurt me more than it's going to hurt you.

02:06The Cotton Picking Truth, still on the plantation.