With slave heads mounted on sticks, bodies hanging from trees and death from labor exhaustion, Will Smith's "Emancipation" accurately depicts the violence used to maintain racial hierarchy in ...
12 Years a Slave is a powerful historical drama film based on the true story of Solomon Northup, a free African American man who was abducted and sold into slavery in the pre-Civil War United States.
Atlanta —– A recently discovered early script version of the 1939 film “Gone With the Wind” showed a much harsher depiction of slavery than what ultimately made it onscreen. Historian David Vincent ...
In 1860, as the American Experiment threatened to explode into a bloody civil war, there were as many as four hundred thousand slave-owners in the United States, and almost four million slaves. The ...
Steve McQueen has suggested that Hollywood has been guilty of ignoring slavery. The British filmmaker, whose new drama 12 Years a Slave centres on a free man (Chiwetel Ejiofor) who's kidnapped and ...