Unchained memories [videorecording] : readings from the slave narratives / an HBO Documentary Film in association with the Library of Congress ; producers, Jacqueline Glover, Thomas Lennon ; writer, Mark Jonathan Harris ; directors, Ed Bell, Thomas Lennon.

Publisher: New York, N.Y. : HBO Video, c2003.

ISBN: 0783123396
9780783123394

Description: 1 videodisc (75 min.) : sd., col. with b&w sequences ; 4 3/4 in.

Subject: Slave narratives.
Slaves United States.
African Americans Biography.
African Americans History To 1863.
Slave narratives.
Documentary films. lcsh
Video recordings for the hearing impaired. lcsh

Credits: Narrator, Whoopi Goldberg ; editor, Juliet Weber.

Performers: Angela Bassett, Michael Boatman, Roscoe Lee Browne, Don Cheadle, Sandra Daley, Ossie Davis, Ruby Dee, Robert Guillaume, Jasmine Guy, Samuel L. Jackson, C.C.H. Pounder, LaTanya Richardson, Ruben Santiago-Hudson, Roger Guenveur Smith, Courtney B. Vance, Vanessa L. Williams, Oprah Winfrey, Alfre Woodard.

Target Audience: MPAA rating: Not rated.

Notes: Closed-captioned.
Special features: original slave narrative audio recording of Fountain Hughes; biographies of the ex-slaves featured in the documentary; DVD-ROM links to HBO.com site, Library of Congress Slave Narratives Archives, The Freedom Center.

Summary: When the Civil War ended in 1865, more than 4 million slaves were set free. By the late 1930's, 100,000 former slaves were still alive. In the midst of the Great Depression, journalists and writers traveled the country to record the memories of the last generation of African-Americans born into bondage. Over 2,000 interviews were transcribed as spoken, in the vernacular of the time, to form a unique historical record.