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Runaway Slave is an American independent political documentary hosted by Baptist minister C.L. Bryant, who hosts a nightly talk show over KEEL radio in his native Shreveport, Louisiana. The film premiered in Los Angeles on January 13, 2012.
Emancipation is a 2022 American historical action thriller film [3] [4] [5] directed by Antoine Fuqua, written by William N. Collage, and co-produced by Will Smith, who stars as a runaway slave headed for Baton Rouge, Louisiana in the 1860s, after President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation to end slavery in secessionist Confederate states, [6] surviving the swamps while ...
For instance, after escaping to freedom, Eliza and Harry are captured by the lawyer Marks and runaway slave tracker Tom Loker and sold down the river as opposed to receiving aid from kindly Quakers. Harry is separated from his mother when purchased by a nameless slave-owner before eventually being reunited with his father.
The film, Smith’s first release after the notorious Oscars slap, centered on the true story of a runaway slave named Peter, a photograph of whom became a rallying call for the abolition of ...
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American Girls — This Season 48 film trailer gives the American Girl dolls adventures that are as cheery as those the Barbie line experience in their own upcoming motion picture, but are still rooted in historically-accurate backstories (e.g. one doll comes from the Victorian Era, another is a runaway slave). [33]
Runaways who decided to stay in Ohio always faced the possibility of capture and return to slavery. Jerry Finney was an example, "kidnapped" in Ohio.