In 1860, as the American Experiment threatened to explode into a bloody civil war, there were as many as four hundred thousand slave-owners in the United States, and almost four million slaves. The nation was founded upon the idea that all men are created equal and endowed by their creator with the inalienable rights of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. The nation would pay a bloody cost for denying those rights to more than twelve percent of its population. But when slavery was first brought to America's shores, this war, and even the nation it tore apart, was centuries in the future. How did it come to pass that more than 10 million African men and women would be brought against their will to the New World? How could educated, deeply religious Europeans trade the human flesh as casually as they traded sugar and rice? With historical reenactments, commentary, and the stories of slaves told through first-hand accounts, this is a struggle 400 years in the making

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BKX

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videorecording

Credits note

Edited by Michael Fulcher, Kevin R. Hershberger, Brian Lyles ; art director, Jeremiah Hornbeker ; music by Keith Kehrer, David G. Russell, Lilli Lewis ; cinematography ; Kevin Hershberger

Intended audience

TV Parental Guidelines rating: TV-14

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Narrated by Coby Batty ; vocal performers, Coby Batty, Karla Brown, Keydron Dunn, Brandon Johns, Thomas E. Nowlin, Durron Marquis Tyre ; featuring, Coby Batty, Karla Brown, Ronnie Brown, Byron Coolie, James Davis, Keydron Dunn, Ebony Etheridge, Pheola Epps, Tianna Epps, Tamon Epps, Jonathan Failor, Danielle Failor, Ronald Hardy, Billicia Charnelle Hines, Jeremiah Hornbaker, Nicholas Jimenez, Brandon Johns, D.L. Hopkins, Tyhm Kennedy, Donzell Lewis, Jennifer Lynn, Allan Miller, Eric Miller, Madeline Murphy, Thomas E. Nowlin, Ken Peebles, Aaron Pleasants, Robert "RJ" Rice, Adrianne Esther Robertson, James Thompson, Durron Marquis Tyre, Kraig Martin Vereen, Scott Wichmann, Philip N. Williams, Charles Wissinger, Philip Wrenchler

Runtime

306

Target audience

general

Technique

live action

Up from slavery

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