Amazon has shown its own hand and revealed it’s been working on its own post-Civil War, alt-history series: Black America, which imagines a post-reparations America in which freed slaves have secured the Southern states of Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama to form the sovereign nation of New Colonia.
This new country faces tense, sometimes violent relations with its “Big Neighbour” the United States, which acts both as ally and foe.
The drama hails from feature producer Will Packer (Straight Outta Compton) and Peabody-winning The Boondocks creator and Black Jesus co-creator Aaron McGruder.
“You still have the prison-industrial complex that disproportionately imprisons black and brown people, you can trace that back for many reasons to slavery.”