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The Heritage of Slavery - Of Black America
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The Heritage of Slavery - Of Black America

Released
13 Aug, 1968 54min
 

The Heritage of Slavery - Of Black America

Released
13 Aug, 1968 54min
 

Directed by Peter Davis

News documentary from 1968 hosted by George Foster, exploring the legacy of oppression that remains over 100 years after the abolition of that peculiar institution. In Part 1, Foster visits Charleston, SC, and speaks with both descendants of slaves and slave owners. The cameras capture a sermon by Rev. Henry Butler of the Mother Emmanuel AME Church (where Denmark Vesey planned an unsuccessful slave revolt in 1822 and Dylan Roof... see more

Directed by Peter Davis

News documentary from 1968 hosted by George Foster, exploring the legacy of oppression that remains over 100 years after the abolition of that peculiar institution. In Part 1, Foster visits Charleston, SC, and speaks with both descendants of slaves and slave owners. The cameras capture a sermon by Rev. Henry Butler of the Mother Emmanuel AME Church (where Denmark Vesey planned an unsuccessful slave revolt in 1822 and Dylan Roof... see more

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George Foster

Self - Reporter

Lerone Bennett Jr.

Self - Senior Editor, 'Ebony' Magazine (as Lerone Bennett Jr.)

Henry Butler

Self (as Rev. Henry Butler)

Fannie Lou Hamer

†

Self

59 yrs

James E. Turner

Self -Political Sociology Instructor, Northwestern University

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