Unchained Memories: Readings from the Slave Narratives (2003)
February 10, 2003Release Date
Unchained Memories: Readings from the Slave Narratives (2003)
February 10, 2003Release Date
Plot.
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This Movie Is About.
Cast & Crew.
Whoopi Goldberg
Narrator
Angela Bassett
Reader
Michael Boatman
Reader
Roscoe Lee Browne
Reader
Ed Bell
Director
Thomas Lennon
Director
Thomas Lennon
Director
Mark Jonathan Harris
Writer
Jacqueline Glover
Producer
Eileen Mack Knight
Casting
Juliet Weber
Editor
Roger Guenveur Smith
Ruben Santiago-Hudson
Jasmine Guy
Courtney B. Vance
Vanessa Williams
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Wiki.
Unchained Memories: Readings from the Slave Narratives is a 2003 American documentary film about the stories of former slaves interviewed during the 1930s as part of the Federal Writers' Project and preserved in the WPA Slave Narrative Collection. This HBO film interpretation directed by Ed Bell and Thomas Lennon is a compilation of slave narratives, narrated by actors, emulating the original conversation with the interviewer. The slave narratives may be the most accurate in terms of the everyday activities of the enslaved, serving as personal memoirs of more than two thousand former slaves. The documentary depicts the emotions of the slaves and what they endured. The "Master" had the opportunity to sell, trade, or kill the enslaved, for retribution should one slave not obey.