When Larken Rose wrote out the concept for the 12-minute animated short film called “The Jones Plantation” back in 2012, there was no reason for him to expect that it would one day evolve into a full-length feature film with a dozen actors, shot on an actual former slave plantation, but that is exactly what happened thanks to a remarkable vision of director Drew Treglia. Two years in the making, filmed on location in Mississippi and Louisiana, and ready for release, Jones Plantation takes a look at the role of slaves and slave masters in the mid-1800s and makes the case that slavery comes in a few different flavors these days. The overt, visible chains of physical slavery have been removed by our modern world, replaced with a more covert version of control disguised as the freedom of choice. But how free are we really when the only choice is between ...