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Bloodlines of the slave trade / director and editor, Markie Hancock ; executive producer, Kathryn Gregorio ; Hancock Productions LLC.
- Format:
- Video
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Williams, Rodney.
- Grannis, Susanna W.
- Slave trade--United States--History.
- Slave trade.
- Slavery--United States--History.
- Slavery.
- African Americans--United States--History.
- African Americans.
- Freed persons--United States--History.
- Freed persons.
- Enslaved persons--United States--History.
- Enslaved persons.
- Children of freed persons--United States--History.
- Children of freed persons.
- Armfield, John, 1797-1871.
- Armfield, John.
- Franklin and Armfield (Firm).
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (1 video file (73 minutes)) : sound, color with some black and white sequences
- Place of Publication:
- [San Francisco, California] : Video Project, [2023]
- System Details:
- digital
- Summary:
- "Bloodlines of the slave trade examines the lives of two people whose only connection is a genetic link to John Armfield, one of the most notorious slave traders of the 1830s. Rodney Williams, who is Black, and Susanna Grannis, who is white, each trace their ancestry back to Armfield, detailing the diverging paths their lineages took. While their relationship to this past is fundamentally different, and they never meet in the film, they both share in the telling of the horrific domestic slave trade and the ongoing reverberations of slavery. While for a long time Susanna tried to ignore her family's history, Rodney and his siblings would not have that privilege. Tracing the ongoing impact of this shared ancestry in each of their lives, Susanna finds it to be an awakening, while for Rodney it is an exploration of the ongoing damage inflicted by the slave traders. Through telling these two family histories Bloodlines of the Slave Trade also traces the history of the United States."
- Participant:
- Featuring Susanna Grannis and Rodney Williams.
- Credits:
- Cinematographer, Laela Kilbourn; audio, Peter Ginsburg, Mike Corl, Josh Isaac; colorist, Evan Anthony.
- Notes:
- Description based on online resource; title from title screen (viewed on May 29, 2024).
- Full screen.
- Description based on a videodisc record.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Frances Baylinson Rosenbluth Fund.
- OCLC:
- 1427976994
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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