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Enslaved is a British-Canadian television documentary series, which premiered in 2020. [1] The series explores various aspects of the history of slavery in the United States, including the efforts of American actor Samuel L. Jackson to reconnect with his African heritage through DNA testing, diving projects to locate and recover shipwrecks in which at least two million African people captured ...
LaLee's Kin: The Legacy of Cotton has two storylines, both of which show the impoverished lives of residents in the American South.The documentary draws the connection—a vicious cycle—between poverty and the lack of educational opportunity for black people living in the Mississippi Delta, over 150 years after the abolition of slavery.
DuVernay contends that slavery in the United States has been perpetuated since the end of the Civil War through criminalizing behavior and enabling police to arrest poor freedmen and force them to work for the state under convict leasing; suppression of African Americans by disenfranchisement, lynchings, and Jim Crow; politicians declaring a ...
Pages in category "Documentary films about slavery in the United States" The following 15 pages are in this category, out of 15 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Descendant is a 2022 American historical documentary film directed by Margaret Brown, chronicling the story behind Africatown in Alabama, and the descendants of the last known enslaved Africans brought to the United States aboard the Clotilda.
The Documentary Group ... It covers the legacy of the 14th Amendment to the United States Constitution and explores the history of ... abolition of slavery in the ...
Documentary films about slavery in the United States (15 P) Pages in category "Documentary films about slavery" The following 20 pages are in this category, out of 20 total.
The 1619 Project is an American documentary television miniseries created for Hulu. It is adapted from The 1619 Project, a New York Times Magazine journalism project focusing on slavery in the United States, which was later turned into the anthology The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story.