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A young slave girl, Sarny, is taught to read by John, a slave who has given up freedom in the Northern United States in order to teach slaves how to read. North and South: 1985–1994: A three-part TV miniseries outlining the period leading to and during the American civil war, and the post-war Reconstruction. The North Star: 2016
Pages in category "Films about American slavery" ... List of films featuring slavery; Free State of Jones (film) Freedom (2014 film) Freedom's Path; G. Glory (1989 film)
Amistad is a 1997 American historical drama film directed by Steven Spielberg, based on the events in 1839 aboard the Spanish slave ship La Amistad, during which Mende tribesmen abducted for the slave trade managed to gain control of their captors' ship off the coast of Cuba, and the international legal battle that followed their capture by the Washington, a U.S. revenue cutter.
Pages in category "Films about slavery" The following 76 pages are in this category, out of 76 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. 0–9. 1745 (film) A.
The slave, John, says that learning to read is freedom because slavery is bounded by laws and deeds which the slaves cannot read. Her excitement towards reading gets her and her fellow slaves in trouble with their master, Mr. Wallace, who prohibits any slave from being able to read.
There, he gives him the money to buy his son's freedom. After McCabe appears, Shields heads to Maryland where meets John Brown and Frederick Douglass, who is preparing the raid at Harpers Ferry. Shields agrees to join them to fight for the end of slavery. Shields, Brown and his men take over Harpers Ferry.
One of the purposes of a movie like “Sound of Freedom” is to sound the alarm, in the way that a dramatic feature film can do and that journalism often can’t. It takes us into the forbidden zone.
Freedom is an American film directed by Peter Cousens, starring Cuba Gooding Jr., William Sadler and Sharon Leal. [1] [2]The film tells two stories in parallel. The first is the escape of a pre-Civil War Black family from slavery in Virginia to freedom in Canada, helped by the Underground Railroad, devout Quakers, and Frederick Douglass.