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Enslaved is a British-Canadian television documentary series, which premiered in 2020. [1] The series explores various aspects of the history of slavery in the United States, including the efforts of American actor Samuel L. Jackson to reconnect with his African heritage through DNA testing, diving projects to locate and recover shipwrecks in which at least two million African people captured ...
Descendant is a 2022 American historical documentary film directed by Margaret Brown, chronicling the story behind Africatown in Alabama, and the descendants of the last known enslaved Africans brought to the United States aboard the Clotilda.
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.
The third addition, the sculpture park, is an effort to humanize the experience of the enslaved person living on a plantation. The centerpiece of the park will be a 100-by-40 feet monument to ...
Author, Sade Green, pictured with burial site historical marker, which reads "Today and always, we honor the enslaved Hintons of the Midway Plantation, known and unknown, buried here in unmarked ...
DWP was featured in 2020 television documentary series Enslaved, featuring DWP member Kramer Wimberley, [10] starring and produced by Samuel L. Jackson. [11] It is also the subject of a 2021 documentary titled Lessons from the Water: Diving with a Purpose by filmmaker Charles Todd. [12]
Enslaved was also honored for Outstanding Achievement by the Impact Doc Awards [38] and was named Best Documentary at the International Filmmaker Festival in London. [39] As part of their anti-racism campaign, Enslaved has been screened in the United Nations [40] and the European Parliament. [41]
Mae Louise Miller (born Mae Louise Wall; August 24, 1943 – 2014) was an American woman who was kept in modern-day slavery, known as peonage, near Gillsburg, Mississippi and Kentwood, Louisiana until her family achieved freedom in early 1961.