Posted on 02/25/2014 3:40:04 AM PST by Altura Ct.
The award-winning film 12 Years a Slave, a striking and brutally vivid retelling of the true story of Solomon Northup, will be incorporated into public high school classrooms around the nation beginning in September 2014, according to a The National School Boards Association (NSBA) press release.
The NSBA is partnering with New Regency, Penguin Books, and the filmmakers to distribute copies of the acclaimed film, book, and study guide to America’s public high schools, giving students an unvarnished view of slavery in America that is seldom introduced inside the classroom.
The initiative, coordinated by Montel Williams, is modeled against an initiative Williams launched that ultimately led to distribution by The Montel Williams Show of copies of the Civil War film Glory to public high schools.
“12 Years a Slave is one of the most impactful films in recent memory, and I am honored to have been able to bring together Fox Searchlight and National School Boards Association to maximize its educational potential. When Hollywood is at its best, the power of the movies can be harnessed into a powerful educational tool. This film uniquely highlights a shameful period in American history, and in doing so will evoke in students a desire to not repeat the evils of the past while inspiring them to dream big of a better and brighter future, and I’m proud to be a part of that,” said Williams.
“Since first reading 12 Years a Slave, it has been my dream that this book be taught in schools. I am immensely grateful to Montel Williams and the National School Boards Association for making this dream a reality and for sharing Solomon Northup’s story with today’s generation,” said Steve McQueen, director of 12 Years.
“The National School Boards Association is honored to partner with Fox Searchlight Pictures and Penguin Books to ensure that every public high school student in America has the opportunity to stare the stark realities of slavery in the eye through books and film,” said NSBA President David A. Pickler. “We believe that providing America’s public high school students the opportunity to bear witness to such an unrelenting view of the evils of slavery is essential toward ensuring that this history is never forgotten and must never be repeated.”
This groundbreaking film won the 2014 Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture – Drama, the Critics’ Choice Award for Best Picture, the PGA Award for Best Picture, the BAFTA Award for Best Film and is nominated for nine Academy Awards, including Best Motion Picture of the Year.
I didn’t see that but someone needs to tell a little of the truth about what actually went on in the Northern states. I ran across a web site that showed a lot of horrendous photos of what happened to black people AND WHITES WHO WERE CALLED N——— LOVERS and I was amazed how many of them were identified as being photographed in Illinois and Indiana.
When I think back on the worst of the WHITE racists I have known in the past (by far the majority of the racists I meet now are black) the worst or at least one of the very worst was a man who came from Chicago. No one actually liked him, not white people and certainly not black people, he was utterly despicable. No South Carolina native that I ever knew could come close to him for pure venom directed at someone simply at the sight of dark skin.
“Will it be mentioned that Republicans fought to end slavery while the Democrats fought to retain it?”
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Yes, right after they report that O.J. has found the REAL KILLERS and the REAL birth certificate is shown.
“Will it be mentioned that Republicans fought to end slavery while the Democrats fought to retain it?”
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Yes, right after they report that O.J. has found the REAL KILLERS and the REAL birth certificate is shown.
Or maybe on this date, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x9SFtiTWawc
Thanks for the citation.
BTTT
Ever wonder where the game “knockout” comes from??
IT’S TAUGHT IN OUR (BLEEPING) SCHOOLS!! BY OUR (BLEEPING) “EDUCATION” SYSTEM.
Slavery has been abolished repeatedly throughout world history. It didn't always "stick", though.
Just in Europe, different Popes condemned slavery several times under penalty of excommunication in the 1400s (Sicut Dudum), 1500s (Sublimus Dei), and 1800s (In Supremo Apostolatus & In Plurimis).
This Wikipedia page has a pretty good annotated timeline of the history of abolition. Abolition of slavery time-line^
Slavery ended in the US after the Civil War, but continues today in many places, including various places in Africa, Mauritania, and Bangladesh.
OK, extra credit for realizing your skill set didn’t match the need on checking your son’s paper.
The only Americans who owe reparations to the descendants of slaves are the descendants of slave owners. These people are one and the same, i.e., American blacks are a racial mix of white slave owner and black slave. Blacks owe reparations to themselves.
That all depends on your definition of “slavery.” To my mind it is a legal condition fully enforced by the society’s legal and social codes.
AFAIK, there is no country on earth where slavery, by this definition, is legal. Severe exploitation of vulnerable people, often supported by local traditions, continues in just about all countries, including the USA. In severe cases the condition of those exploited in this way varies little from slavery.
But I think it does make a difference that this exploitation isn’t “legal,” and that at least in this country the law protects the exploited and not the exploiters.
My white ancestors in east Texas before the civil war were slave owners. I found this out in The First Census of Texas 1835. According to the census they owned a horse, a slave and a wooden clock.
Sorry about the slavery but I did not inherit anything from them,not even the wooden clock.
Agree 100%.
Not entirely. Slavery was also hereditary, so many were born into the condition. It is believed the practice of exposing unwanted newborns was a recruitment mechanism for slavery, with professionals "rescuing" the abandoned children and raising them for sale. Pirates were also a source of slaves. Many of the Roman conquests were essentially giant slave raids, notably J. Caesar's conquest of Gaul. Slaves were also bought from outside the empire.
As far as the Muslim slave trade, it started long before and continued after the "Christian" Atlantic trade, but never reached the volume of the Atlantic trade in its heyday. The total numbers removed from Africa by the two trades are probably roughly equivalent.
Muslims sold few slaves to Europeans, as throughout the period of the Atlantic trade the coast was controlled by powerful pagan kingdoms that acted as middlemen for slaves traded from the interior. Some of those slaves were probably originally captured by Muslims.
Those facts will never be mentioned.
Not only that - there were thousands of blacks who were slave owners. In New Orleans alone more than three thousands blacks owned slaves.
Yes and no, I would suggest.
Under the slavery accepted at the time of the NT, slaves were considered "animals that talk." They were chattel in the most literal sense of the word.
Masters could, and did, legally torture to death or crucify slaves whenever they felt like it. Under Roman law, when a master was murdered by one of his slaves, or even died mysteriously, ALL his slaves were executed, often crucified or otherwise tortured. Women, children, babies and all. Slaves could be and often were sold into the arena.
Slaves were openly and even publicly used for sexual purposes.
"Christian" American slavery has nothing to compare with this in brutality. Slaves always had some legal protection, poorly enforced though it often was.
OTOH, the tying of slavery to "race" or color added an immutable characteristic to slavery that never existed in classical times, when quite literally anybody could wind up enslaved, simply by losing a war or being captured by pirates.
Aristotle somehow managed to square this with a belief that slaves were both to be enslaved. Don't ask me how his famous logic got to this point.
It is, I think, relevant that slavery in the American colonies and later in the USA was associated with perhaps the only population explosion in history among a slave society. All other slave societies I am aware of had to constantly be replenished with new slaves, since the slaves did not reproduce enough to even keep up their numbers. The population of American slaves, OTOH, grew at a rate similar to that of whites, possibly even greater. This does not line up well with a horrifically oppressive system.
IOW, I would contend that American slavery was in some ways worse than that of classical times, and in some ways much better.
Sorry, should read:
Aristotle somehow managed to square this with a belief that slaves were born to be enslaved.
Nope.
When the Atlantic slave trade is discussed, it is always in relation to USA or the colonies that became the USA.
This is despite the fact that less than 5% of all slaves shipped across the Atlantic came here. Nobody ever denounces Cuba, or Mexico, or Peru for their history of slavery.
Huh? What movie did you watch?
Will it ever be enough?
Pity the Holocaust
The red headed step child of victims for Hollywood
they had a mock trial at my sons 8th grade history class about Andrew Jackson he was tried for genocide
my son acted as Jackson attorney
it was a split decision
I was proud of him
and before folks get started they do this in private schools too been there done that
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