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Tag: abolitionists

Posted on January 12, 2022

Amend: The Fight for America (2021)

Will Smith, using graphics & actors, hosts this survey of the long struggle for Blacks to become full citizens, centering on the 14th Amendment to the US Constitution.

Posted on April 10, 2021September 30, 2021

Charlotte Forten’s Mission: Experiment in Freedom (1985)

This TV film focuses on the heroic 2 years that Black Abolitionist Charlotte Forten spent teaching ex-slaves at Port Royal during the Civil War.

Posted on October 15, 2020October 25, 2020

Up From Slavery (2011)

The dark story of slavery in America, from its arrival in Virginia in the 7th Century, through the Civil War, & also of Abolitionists who fought it.

Posted on October 10, 2020October 10, 2020

The Good Lord Bird (2020)

The last 3 bloody years in the life of Abolitionist John Brown are told through the eyes of a young freed slave boy mistaken as a girl.

Posted on November 30, 2013February 1, 2023

AMISTAD (1997)

The story of how abolitionists brought about the freeing of captive Africans who revolted against their captors on the ship ironically named Amistad.

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