Black History: From Civil War Through Today
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Actor: Black History in America-from the Civil War ThrougDVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language)
Format: AC-3, Black & White, Box set, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 1093 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2008-01-08
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: St Clair Vision
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Movie Review: Disgraceful representation
Summary: 1 Stars
There is no pleasant picture to paint regarding the lives of Africans brought to America for slavery. Likewise, no means of media should ever try to downplay the hardships and torment that Africans endured. I find it appalling that the video collection entitled "Black History, from the Civil War Through Today" would try to do so. The videos' portrayals are as misleading as they are insulting and it should be pulled from shelves.
One segment of the series is entitled "The Plantation System in Southern Life." The quality of this segment is reminiscent of a Three Stooges or Little Rascals episode from the 30s. The film is spotted, choppy and at times inaudible. As the feature continues, it highlights a plantation house formerly occupied by a wealthy slave owning family. The narrator speaks of the grandeur of the house, its expensive furniture, and the generous amount of land surrounding the estate. As the narrator continues he states that plantation life was more than an "economic organization, it was an unusual class system." The subsequent scenes depict smiling slave owners riding on horseback inspecting the slaves as they pick cotton. The slaves were also smiling as their owners approached them and the two parties engage in eye to eye conversation. This is one of the most fallacious representations of slave life I have ever seen. Life on a plantation was not a class system nor was it an economic organization. For a class system to exist, all those within the system have to be considered, if nothing else, human. In the eyes of slave owners, slaves were not human; they were considered property, just like cattle or a plow. Secondly, slaves were never permitted to look a slave owner, his family, or any other white person in the eye. This was considered a form of disrespect and the infraction was met with the most serious of consequences. An "economic organization" it was, but not for the slave and not in the way the producers depict. An economic organization would imply that labor was employed and in return, employees were compensated. A slave owner would never fathom compensating a slave for their labor. The planation for a slave was a place of forced servitude, mental anguish and physical taxation. The director's attempt to categorize a plantation as anything other than that is a direct misrepresentation of history.
These are but a few of the misrepresentations of Black History presented in this collection. The directors, producers and editors have obviously not researched one true shred of Black History and should be ashamed for compiling this abomination.
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