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  1. Britain 1750-1900, 1 (1999 Multimedia)

    Subject
    History
    Distribution
    CD-ROM

    Primary source material and interactive investigations covering the history of the United Kingdom from 1750 to 1900. Investigation topics are: 1) how did the British Empire treat its people? (slavery and...

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  2. 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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  3. Changing Face of Slavery, The (1997 Video)

    Director
    Bill Locke
    Producer
    Rose McCausland
    Subject
    Social welfare
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 30 min., 2000 sale: £15.00 (inc. VAT +p&p)

    Two 15-minute programmes examining slavery past and present: 1) investigates the trans-Atlantic slave trade, how and why it began and the arguments for and against its abolition; 2) looks at childen working...

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  4. Jessica (1996 Video)

    Director
    Bruno Sorrentino
    Subject
    Sociology
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 41 min., 1999 sale: £30.00 (+VAT inc. p&p) (UK education)

    Exposé of the cruel and inhuman treatment of a Filipino ‘guest worker’ in Saudi Arabia.

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  5. Tomorrow we Will Finish (1995 Video)

    Director
    Fröde Pederson
    Subject
    Development studies
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 26 min., 1999 sale: £30.00 (+VAT inc. p&p) (UK education)

    Follows three of the 150,000 girls betwee 5 and 16 who work in Nepal’s 2000 carpet factories.

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  6. Haiti’s Cinderellas (1994 Video)

    Director
    Fröde Pederson
    Subject
    Development studies
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 24 min., 1999 sale: £30.00 (+VAT inc. p&p) (UK education)

    Focuses on the children of Haiti, three-quaters of them girls, who work as domestic slaves in middle-class homes.

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  7. Slaves and Noble Savages: Equiano and the Enlightenment (1991 Video)

    Producer
    Robert Philip
    Subject
    History; Sociology
    Distribution
    Off-air recording licence Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 24 min., 1998 sale: £145.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    Born in the 1740s, Olaudah Equiano was kidnapped by slavers in West Africa and subsequently spent many years in the British Navy, before eventually buying his freedom and becoming famous through his...

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  8. Daughters of the Dust (1991)

    Director
    Julie Dash
    Subject
    Film studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 112 minutes), £14.99

    Feature film. In South Carolina’s Sea Islands at the dawn of the 20th century, a multi-generational family of the Gullah community - former west-African slaves who adopted many of their ancestors’ Yoruba...

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  9. 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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  10. Rise and Fall of King Cotton, The (6 Parts) (1984 Video)

    Director
    Michael Garrod
    Producer
    Michael Garrod
    Subject
    History
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 6 x 30 min.

    Series discussing the technical, scientific, economic and political issues in the rise and fall of the cotton industry. Great Britain, India and the United States of America are the three countries...

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