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  1. inTIME/Unchained Memories C M Y K TIME Imaging READINGS FROM THE SLAVE NARRATIVES What was it like to be enslaved in the United States? More than 2,000 African Americans answered that question in interviews conducted during the 1930s. Their voices come to life inside the pages of this magazine — and in the extraordinary new documentary

  2. Unchained Memories. 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 [2] is a ...

  3. Unchained Memories:Readings from the Slave Narratives,a powerful new documentary, features readings from these narratives by some of today’s most prominent African-American actors. Accounts of slave auctions, field work, escape attempts and emancipation come to life through these readings, which are juxtaposed with rich historical images and ...

  4. The influence of the slave narrative can still be seen in modern works of autobiography and fiction. These include Richard Wright’s Black Boy (1945) and The Autobiography of Malcolm X (1965), important autobiographies of black Americans. Novels written by both blacks and whites are indebted to the slave narrative.

  5. Slave Auctions. Trade yards in Virginia, New Orleans, thousands of slaves waiting to be sold. Prepare slaves for auction – clean them, give them meat grease to pretend feeding the slaves meat. Sell children to one man, mothers and fathers to another. Put on the block – 18 to 30 years old brought in the most money.

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  6. Feb 10, 2003 · UNCHAINED MEMORIES: READINGS FROM THE SLAVE NARRATIVES (TV) Summary. A documentary based on interviews with ex-slaves collected by the Federal Writers Project in the 1930s in which the actual words of former black slaves are read by a group of prominent African-American actors.

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  8. Feb 8, 2003 · 'Unchained Memories' of Slavery During the 1930s, ... Woodard notes that many of those same children went on to do remarkable things. They became writers in the Harlem Renaissance, lawmakers who ...

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