The Long Shadow

How Slavery Continues to Impact American Society

When two daughters of the South, Director Frances Causey and Producer Sally Holst, set out to find causes for the continuing racial divisions in the United States, they discovered that the politics of slavery didn't end after the Civil War.

In an astonishingly candid look at the history of anti-black racism in the United States, THE LONG SHADOW traces the blunt imposition of white privilege and its ultimate manifestation-slavery. Causey and Holst conclude that, without a doubt, artifacts of slavery remain at work in American society today.

Official Selection at the Mill Valley Film Festival.

"Causey deserves real credit for reckoning not only with America's legacy of slavery and prejudice, but also examining her own ancestors' specific roles in the racist treatment of African Americans." - Kimber Myers, The Los Angeles Times