Who were our ancestors? We know they were slaves and that overcame a great number of difficult circumstances. We know they loved the idea of freedom and survived things that would have broken weaker people, but what about their personal stories? What about their day to day lives? HBO’s Unchained Memories is the recitation of slave narratives that were collected from former slaves during the Great Depression and has famous stars such as Samuel Jackson voicing the slave’s stories.
The actors do a brilliant job telling powerful stories from the slave perspective. The former slaves talk about their owners, losing relatives to the auction block, and their efforts to become free. I rank this a buy. It is worth owning, watching, and sharing if for no other reason than to hear the songs of our ancestors, the slave songs, and see the pictures of beaten down people, and learn about the people survived hardship so that we could be born.
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