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- 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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- Subject
- History
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- 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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- 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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- 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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- 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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- Subject
- History
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- 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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- 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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- 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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- History; Social Studies
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- 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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- 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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