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"River of Hope" tells the story of how a former slave Mary Barnes Cabell and her children helped found the first college for African Americans in...

The first screen adaptation of Harriet Beecher Stowe's novel to star a black man in the title role.

African American filmmaker David A. Wilson decided to look into his family's history during the slave era. The result is this documentary, which...

Inspired by true events, a young Frederick Douglass is secretly taught to read and write by his master's wife. Using only the air as their...

A huge bestseller in its day, the novel Uncle Tom's Cabin championed the abolitionist cause while perpetuating racist prejudices about African...

Ghost Fleet follows a small group of activists who risk their lives on remote Indonesian islands to find justice and freedom for the enslaved...

A trio of short films commissioned to be shown to visitors entering the National Freedom Center in Cincinnati Ohio. Freedom and Unfreedom by...

Frederick Douglass and the White Negro is a documentary telling the story of ex-slave, abolitionist, writer and politician Frederick Douglass and his...

A story of love, lust, violence and murder on a sadistic southern plantation during the slave era.

Alternating interview segments, shots of Martinique landscapes and scenes from Aimé Césaire's play La Tragédie du roi Christophe (1963), Sarah...

On November 17, 2015, construction on Baldwin Hall on the University of Georgia campus came to a halt when workers uncovered human remains on the...

Mice sold into slavery and driven to pick cotton by whip-cracking cats plot their escape to freedom.

The story of Benjamin Banneker, the early American patriot whose achievements rival those of Benjamin Franklin!! Risking his life, working with the...

BBC News Arabic's undercover investigation exposes the people in Kuwait breaking local and international laws on modern slavery, including a woman...

William Still was one of the most important, yet largely unheralded heroes of the Underground Railroad. Still was determined to get as many runaways...

After Phyllis discovers that her daughter Cecilia can read, she’s torn between abiding to her slave owner’s commands or encouraging her daughter...

A working man's life is changed after he breaks the routine.

"All Equal!" is an evocative animated film that unfolds around a village fire where a grandfather narrates the poignant tale of his ancestors and...

75% of all enslaved Africans coming to America came in through Beaufort and the sea islands of South Carolina. This beautiful and picturesque tourist...

Young Anita's life consists of working as a servant to a wealthy family, leaving her little time for anything else. Her servitude (which some would...