UNCHAINED MEMORIES DVD

Movie Description:
When the civil war ended in 1865, more than 4 million slaves were set free. By the late 1930`s, 100,000 formerslaves were still alive. In the midst ofthe Great Depression, the Federal Writers Project hired journalists and writers to travel the country and recordthe memories of this last generationof African-Americans born into bondage. Over 2000 interviews were transcribed asspoken, in the vernacular of the time, to forma unique histroical record -first-hand accounts of what it was to bea slave.