Traces the history of the Yoruba people of West Africa and their journey into slavery in Colonial America. Shows the dress, jewelry, baskets, pottery, and musical instruments of the Yoruba culture in West Africa in the 15th and 16th centuries. The traveling Yoruba storyteller or Keeper of Records at this Yoruba wedding ceremony warned the people of a coming danger, slavery. Blacks in leg irons and chains shuffle along. Shows captured Blacks chained in hold of slave ship. Slaves at work in field. Blacksmith at work. Shows slaves attending a secret meeting to listen to the griot or storyteller. Shows a slave wedding ceremony performed by the griot or storyteller. People from the North secretly distributing papers and documents such as David Walkers Appeal, a radical anti-slavery document. Shows two slaves fleeing to the North, sounds of barking dog. Firing of cannons depict start of the Civil War and the end of slavery in America.
Posted on: Thu, 14 Aug 2014 20:23:29 +0000
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