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  1. Digging for Slaves (1989 Video)

    Subject
    History
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 50 min., 1996 sale: £99.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    Between the 16th and the 19th centuries, ten million Africans were kidnapped and sold into slavery in America. Now archaeologists are uncovering evidence of the realities of slave life and discovering the...

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  2. Slavery by Another Name (2012)

    Subject
    History
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 1 NTSC, 90 minutes), $19.99

    This 90-minute documentary that challenges one of Americans’ most cherished assumptions: that slavery ended with the Emancipation Proclamation. The film tells how even as chattel slavery came to an end in...

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  3. Girl Rising (2014)

    Director
    Richard Robbins
    Subject
    Development studies; Education; Women’s studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 1 NTSC, 103 minutes), £13.99

    This film follows nine girls from Haiti, Nepal, Ethiopia, India, Egypt, Peru, Cambodia, Sierra Leone, and Afghanistan on their journey to education. the girls face arranged marriages, child slavery and other...

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  4. American Civil War, The (1983 Video)

    Subject
    History
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col/b&w. 80 min., 1995 sale: £12.99 (inclusive)

    A history of the American civil war looking at the causes of the war, including Northern demands for the abolition of slavery and territorial acquisition; the strategy and campaigns of the war; the role of...

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  5. Meet Mr Lincoln (1960 Film)

    Subject
    History
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    Old photographs, pictures, newspapers and posters review the life of Abraham Lincoln. Consists in large part of illustrated reading from letters. Portraits of Civil War soldiers, their camps and battles, and...

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  6. Remembering Slavery: African Americans Talk About Their Personal Experiences of Slavery and Emancipation (1998)

    Subject
    History
    Distribution
    Sale, Audio (Cassette, 120 minutes), $16.95

    Many years after the Civil War had ended, those survivors who had once been slaves were interviewed by a variety of scholars and researchers. Accounts of many of those interviews were set down on paper, and...

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  7. Mark Twain Tonight! (1999)

    Subject
    Drama; Literature
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 1, 90 minutes), £13.52

    A recording for American television of Hal Holbrok’s one man show on Mark Twain. He comments on politics, the art of lying, religion, patriotism, slavery and man’s notion that he is the Creator’s pet....

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  8. Sold Down the River (1992 Video)

    Producer
    Mark Hayhurst
    Subject
    History
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 50 min., 2000 sale: £99.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    Fifty years after the American Civil War, blacks in the southern states still could not vote or sit on juries, and lynch mobs enforced white rule. Asks why the emancipation from slavery led to another, even...

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  9. African Americans, The: Many Rivers to Cross (2013)

    Subject
    History; Social Studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 1 NTSC, 360 minutes), $29.99

    This film, presented by Professor Henry Louis Gates, Jr., explores the evolution of the African-American people, as well as the multiplicity of cultural institutions, political strategies, and religious and...

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  10. Breaking the Ice, The Story of Mary Ann Shadd (2000)

    Director
    Sylvia Sweeney
    Producer
    Peter Raymont; Lindalee Tracey; Maria Pimentel
    Subject
    Women’s studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 1 NTSC, 62 minutes), $248.00

    BREAKING THE ICE, THE STORY OF MARY ANN SHADD sheds new light on the remarkable, little known story of the abolitionist, suffragette and integrationist Mary Ann Shadd. Living in Windsor, Ontario, she fought...

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