attention history buffs!
Priority: Medium
Ah, the PBS love continues. I'm telling you the documentaries relevant to my fields are coming out of the woodwork! Just got this email at my Uni:
Coming to PBS on Feb. 9th and the 16th from 9PM to 11PM is the four part series Slavery And The Making Of America, produced by Dante James, and narrated by Morgan Freeman. Dante is an incredible filmmaker who has
produced many award wining films among them biographies on Marian Anderson and A. Philip Randolph. He worked with the late great filmmaker Henry Hampton at Blackside and was the executive producer of Hampton's last series This Far By Faith: African American Spiritual Journeys.
Slavery And The Making Of America tells the story of slavery from the point of view of the enslaved. The series recognizes the strength, humanity and dignity of the enslaved and redefines them as pro-active freedom fighters not passive victims.
There is also a web site for the series: http://www.pbs.org/slavery. Please pass this info on and be sure to tune in.
Slavery And the Making Of America
Feb 9th and 16th from 9PM-11PM
On PBS
Pen caveat: Check your local listings for accurate show times. :D
Aside from being an important area in US History, the literature that goes with it is fascinating; more on that when I get into the 19th century (yes, that's a carrot I'm dangling in front of my eyes :p). If you're interested, some titles I recommend (in no particular order) are:
Clotel, or the President's Daughter by William Wells Brown
Celia, a Slave by Melton A. McLaurin
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl by Harriet Jacobs
My Bondage and My Freedom by Frederick Douglass
Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe (controversial and strongly loathed in the African American community today)
Ah, the PBS love continues. I'm telling you the documentaries relevant to my fields are coming out of the woodwork! Just got this email at my Uni:
Coming to PBS on Feb. 9th and the 16th from 9PM to 11PM is the four part series Slavery And The Making Of America, produced by Dante James, and narrated by Morgan Freeman. Dante is an incredible filmmaker who has
produced many award wining films among them biographies on Marian Anderson and A. Philip Randolph. He worked with the late great filmmaker Henry Hampton at Blackside and was the executive producer of Hampton's last series This Far By Faith: African American Spiritual Journeys.
Slavery And The Making Of America tells the story of slavery from the point of view of the enslaved. The series recognizes the strength, humanity and dignity of the enslaved and redefines them as pro-active freedom fighters not passive victims.
There is also a web site for the series: http://www.pbs.org/slavery. Please pass this info on and be sure to tune in.
Slavery And the Making Of America
Feb 9th and 16th from 9PM-11PM
On PBS
Pen caveat: Check your local listings for accurate show times. :D
Aside from being an important area in US History, the literature that goes with it is fascinating; more on that when I get into the 19th century (yes, that's a carrot I'm dangling in front of my eyes :p). If you're interested, some titles I recommend (in no particular order) are: