The other Madisons / directed by Eduardo Montes-Bradley ; produced by Soledad Liendo, Heritage Film Project.

Format:

Video

Author/Creator:

Kearse, Bettye, author, speaker.

Contributor:

Montes-Bradley, Eduardo, director.

Liendo, Soledad, producer.

Heritage Film Project, production company. .

Series:

Academic Video Online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Madison, James, 1751-1836--Family.

Madison, James.

Madison family.

Mandy, active 18th century.

Mandy.

Coreen, active 18th century.

Coreen.

African American families--History.

African American families.

Enslaved persons--Virginia--History.

Enslaved persons.

Multiracial people--United States.

Multiracial people.

Freed persons--Texas--History.

Freed persons.

Genre:

Documentary films.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (38 minutes)

Place of Publication:

Charlottesville, VA : Heritage Film Project, 2022.

Language Note:

In English.

System Details:

video file

Summary:

The Other Madisons is a remarkable contribution to American history, documenting the process by which an oral tradition preserves, with exquisite fidelity, an important social record, in spite of, or perhaps in response to, suppression or neglect by exclusion, and racism. In this documentary, Bettye Kearse traces her ancestry to Mandy, her family's first African ancestor enslaved on American soil and who became the property of President James Madison's estate in Virginia, Montpelier. Kearse's research, her encounters with cultural institutions, and her travels to Ghana, Portugal, Virginia, and Texas provide the contextual background of this genealogical journey. The family mantra: "Always remember-you're a Madison. You come from African slaves and a president" has now achieved a new level, that of the documentary film experience.

Notes:

Title from resource description page (viewed May 12, 2022).

OCLC:

1328059246