Bloodlines of the slave trade / director & editor, Markie Hancock ; executive producer, Kathryn Gregorio ; Hancock Productions LLC.

Format:

Video

Contributor:

Hancock, Markie, film director, editor of moving image work.

Gregorio, Kathryn, film producer.

Grannis, Susanna W., on-screen participant.

Williams, Rodney, on-screen participant.

Hancock Productions, production company.

Video Project, publisher.

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 videodisc (73 min.) : sound, color with some black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in.

4 3/4 in.

polychrome

Other Title:

Blood lines of the slave trade

Place of Publication:

[San Francisco, California] : Video Project, [2023]

Language Note:

English dialogue.

System Details:

DVD-R, NTSC, Region 1

DVD-R, NTSC, Region 1; widescreen (1.85:1) presentation..

digital

optical

Dolby digital 2.0

sound

video file

DVD video

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"--Container.

Participant:

Featuring Susanna Grannis and Rodney Williams.

Credits:

Cinematographer, Laela Kilbourn; audio, Peter Ginsburg, Mike Corl, Josh Isaac; colorist, Evan Anthony.

Notes:

Full screen.

OCLC:

1427976994