Unchained Memories : : Readings From the Slave Narratives
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Special features: original slave narrative audio recording of Fountain Hughes; biographies of the ex-slaves featured in the documentary; DVD-ROM links to HBO.com site, Library of Congress Slave Narratives Archives, The Freedom Center.
Angela Bassett, Michael Boatman, Roscoe Lee Browne, Don Cheadle, Ossie Davis, Ruby Dee, Robert Guillaume, Jasmine Guy, Samuel L. Jackson, C.C.H. Pounder, Roger Guenveur Smith, Courtney B. Vance, Vanessa L. Williams, Oprah Winfrey, Alfre Woodard.
When the Civil War ended in 1865, more than 4 million slaves were set free. By the late 1930's, 100,000 former slaves were still alive. In the midst of the Great Depression, journalists and writers traveled the country to record the memories of the last generation of African-Americans born into bondage. Over 2,000 interviews were transcribed as spoken, in the vernacular of the time, to form a unique historical record.
DVD, 5.1 Dolby surround, Region 1 encoding.
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LANGUAGE OPTIONS
Closed-captioned.
PUBLISHED
New York, N.Y. : HBO Video, c2003.
Year Published: 2003
Description: 1 videodisc (75 min.) : sd., col. with b&w sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Language: English
Format: DVD
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
0783123396 :
ADDITIONAL CREDITS
Glover, Jacqueline.
Lennon, Thomas.
Harris, Mark Jonathan, 1941-
Bell, Ed.
Bassett, Angela.
Boatman, Michael, 1964-
Browne, Roscoe Lee.
Cheadle, Don.
Davis, Ossie.
Dee, Ruby.
Guillaume, Robert.
Guy, Jasmine.
Jackson, Samuel L.
Pounder, C. C. H.
Smith, Roger Guenveur.
Vance, Courtney B.
Williams, Vanessa.
Winfrey, Oprah.
Woodard, Alfre, 1953-
Goldberg, Whoopi, 1950-
Weber, Juliet.
HBO Documentary Films.
Library of Congress.
HBO Video (Firm)
SUBJECTS
Slave narratives.
Enslaved people -- United States.
African Americans -- Biography.
African Americans -- History -- To 1863.
Documentary films.
Video recordings for the hearing impaired.