DVD

Equiano - A Son of Africa - The award winning film as seen on BBC2 / MNET. A personal account of slavery in the eighteenth century.

500 years later - The film deals with the position of the African Diaspora 500 years after the forced migration of Africans from the continent.

Amazing Grace - about the campaign against the slave trade in 19th century Britain, led by famous abolitionist William Wilberforce, who was responsible for steering anti-slave trade legislation through the British parliament.

Films
Alex Haley, "Roots", 1977 mini-series based on Haley's book

Haile Gerima, "Sankofa", 1993

Steven Spielberg, "Amistad", 1997

Julie Dash, "Daughters of the Dust", 1991

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