Slavery and the Making of America dvd movie.|
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List Price: $79.99 Our Price: $79.99 Features • Box set • Closed-captioned • Color • DVD-Video • Subtitled • Widescreen • NTSC |
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| ♥♥♥♥♥ | HS Teacher Says 5 Stars For This Production...and For Morgan Freeman! |
| I have watched and re-watched this series on PBS, and with each episode I always go away having learned something. The researchers and writers were thorough, the re-enactments are well-played*, and the tempo of each segment is appropriate. Morgan Freeman is the perfect choice for a narrator (even better than Whoopie Goldberg in Unchained Memories); he speaks like a wise, maturing uncle versed in the intricacies of a long, unpleasant family history.
My favorite segments are those on David Walker's call to resistance; a certain Miss Freeman, who successfully sued for her freedom; and Col. Tye's band of 18th century guerilla warriors. *Such re-enactments, when accurately presented, are essential to helping viewers understand the realities of the era, as there are so few photographs and no moving pictures in existence from this lengthy period in American history. (As the narrator says, "America was a slave-holding society longer than it has been a 'free' society.") |
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