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Unchained Memories: Readings from the Slave Narratives: Directed by Ed Bell, Thomas Lennon. With Whoopi Goldberg, Angela Bassett, Michael Boatman, Roscoe Lee Browne. When the Civil War ended in 1865, more than four million slaves were set free.
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- Documentary
- Ed Bell, Thomas Lennon
- 2003-01
Unchained Memories: Readings from the Slave Narratives is a 2003 American documentary film about the stories of former slaves interviewed during the 1930s as part of the Federal Writers' Project and preserved in the WPA Slave Narrative Collection.
Various wonderful actors, from Samuel Jackson to Ruby Dee read the actual transcripts of former slaves' memories of their experiences, as recorded by the Library of Congress in the 1930s. Certainly hearing people's own experiences in their own words bring the surreal horrors of slavery to life in a way that no dramatization can.
Thomas Lennon, Ed Bell. Synopsis. When the Civil War ended in 1865, more than four million slaves were set free. Over 70 years later, the memories of some 2,000 slave-era survivors were...
Aug 3, 2003 · Powerful and moving, Unchained Memories: Readings from the Slave Narratives is living history. This DVD includes excellent supplemental material and is very well done.
Feb 9, 2003 · By Laura Fries. “Times don’t change, just the merchandise”: Ex-slave Sarah Francis Shaw Graves’ take on the world was an understandably bitter one, and her words provide an unfiltered look...
Feb 10, 2003 · In addition to the stripped-down scenes of actors reading or conferring with producers in an unadorned studio, ''Unchained Memories'' uses lavishly produced re-enactments to stage scenes of...
