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Amazing Grace is a biographical movie about the Abolitionist William Wilberforce's campaign against the slave trade in the British Empire, and features the role of John Newton, the writer of the hymn Amazing Grace, in Wilberforce's campaign.
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.
Amazing Grace is a 2006 biographical drama film directed by Michael Apted, about the abolitionist campaign against the slave trade in the British Empire, led by William Wilberforce, who was responsible for steering anti-slave trade legislation through the British parliament. The title is a reference to the 1772 hymn "Amazing Grace".
12 Years a Slave is a 2013 biographical historical drama film directed by Steve McQueen from a screenplay by John Ridley, based on the 1853 slave memoir Twelve Years a Slave by Solomon Northup, an African American man who was kidnapped in Washington, D.C. by two conmen in 1841 and sold into slavery.
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12 Years a Slave (film) A. Alex Haley's Queen; Alice (2022 film) Amistad (film) Antebellum (film) The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman (film) B. Beloved (1998 film)
The African authorities deny that a slave trade even exists and David must find help in a shadowy world where the rescuers of slaves are as ruthless as the traders. As David tracks Anansa across Africa and the Sahara desert, he is helped by a member of the Anti-Slavery League , a mercenary helicopter pilot and Malik, an Indian who seeks revenge ...
In 1795 on Curaçao, then a Dutch colony, a slave uprising takes place. [33] Twice Colonized: 2023 Aaju Peter is an Inuk lawyer and activist who has lived in both Greenland and Nunavut working for the enforcement of Inuit rights. Two Mementos: 1985 A man joins the anti-Dutch freedom movement in the 1930s. Utopia: 2013