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African American families Drama African Americans History To 1863 Drama African Americans Sea Islands Drama Confederate States of America History Drama Gullahs Gullahs Drama Slaveholders Southern States Drama Slavery United States Drama Southern States History Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775 Drama Southern States History Revolution, 1775-1783 DramaFilter By Series
Cohen film collectionSummary: An adaptation of Alex Haley's "Roots", in which Haley traces his African American family's history from the mid-18th century to the Reconstruction era.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2007
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV ROOSummary: Follows several generations in the lives of a slave family. The saga begins with Kunta Kinte, a West African youth captured by slave raiders and shipped to America in the 1700s. The family is depicted up until the Civil War, when Kunte Kinte's grandson gains his emancipation.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2007
Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD ROOCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV ROOSummary: Languid look at the Gullah culture of the sea islands off the coast of South Carolina and Georgia where African folk ways were maintained well into the twentieth century and was one of the last bastions of these mores in America.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017