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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 compilation of slave ...
Unchained Memories: Readings from the Slave Narratives: Directed by Ed Bell, Thomas Lennon. With Whoopi Goldberg, Angela Bassett, Michael Boatman, Roscoe Lee Browne.
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- Ed Bell, Thomas Lennon
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Jan 18, 2018 · Unchained Memories is a 2003 documentary film about the stories of former slaves interviewed during the 1930s as part of the Federal Writers' Project and pre...
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- Karonaj
Jan 6, 2010 · In the late 1930s, an estimated 100,000 former slaves were still alive in the United States. In the midst of the Great Depression, from 1936 to 1938, more th...
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- Citizen Film
Mar 18, 2015 · ABOUT Unchained Memories. In the late 1930s, an estimated 100,000 former slaves were still alive in the United States. In the midst of the Great Depression, from 1936 to 1938, more than 2,000 interviews with one-time slaves were conducted for the Work Projects Administration (WPA) via its Federal Writers’ Project, with the transcripts (written in the vernacular of the time) forming a unique ...
Feb 8, 2003 · 'Unchained Memories' of Slavery During the 1930s, the Works Progress Administration's Federal Writers' Project interviewed 2,000 former slaves as part of a larger overall effort to record the ...
“Unchained Memories” provides information about slavery and first-hand accounts of the lives of slaves in the American South. The film is also an excellent way to introduce the genre of the personal narrative. The movie works very well with TeachWithMovies.org lesson plan, Teaching Students to Write a Narrative.
