FILMS ABOUT SLAVERY AND THE TRANS-ATLANTIC  SLAVE TRADE

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I have captured the information which follows from various sources. I have seen few of the films and cannot vouch for the accuracy of this information.  Corrections and contributions would be welcome.

LINKS

California Newsreel: Library of African Cinema (San Francisco, California)
"North America's primary source of African feature films and documentaries - all available on video. African filmmakers capture the continent's past, scrutinize its present, and imagine its future."
http://www.newsreel.org/lac.htm

California Newsreel, Library of African Cinema "largest collection of African Cinema in US"
http://www.namac.org/Directory/org_data/cnrl.html
e-mail: contact@newsreel.org

Columbia University Libraries
http://www.columbia.edu/cu/libraries/indiv/area/Africa/video.html

Films on Africa for African Studies (First Run/Icarus Films, New York info@frif.com)
http://www.frif.com/subjects/africa.html

FESPACO: Panafrican Film and Television Festival of Ouagadougou (FESPACO), the largest African film festival. http://www.fespaco.bf/

H-AFRLITCINE is a list discussing all aspects of African literatures and cinema
H-AFRLITCINE@h-net.msu.edu



This video program may be used to address the following academic standards, provided by the Mid-Continent Regional Educational Laboratory (McREL). See credit section below for details.
http://www.school.discovery.com/spring98/programs/slaveship/index.html

Grade level: 9-12
Subject area: world history
Standard: understands the causes and consequences of the agricultural and industrial revolutions from 1750 to 1850.
Benchmark: understands different perspectives regarding the nature of the African slave trade (e.g., how the African slave trade might be compared to the migration of Chinese workers to North and South America, and Indian workers to the Caribbean in the 19th century; the significance of the book, “The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano or Gustava Vasa, Written about Himself,” about the slave trade).

Grade level: 9-12
Subject area: world history
Standard: understands the causes and consequences of the agricultural and industrial revolutions from 1750 to 1850.
Benchmark: understands reasons why various countries abolished slavery (e.g., evangelical arguments against slavery, and the economic, evangelical, and “Enlightened” reasons for Britain’s abolition of slavery; why Brazil was the last nation to abolish the slave trade; the importance of Enlightenment thought, Christian piety, democratic revolutions, slave resistance, and emancipation of the slaves in the Americas).

Grade level: 9-12
Subject area: world history
Standard: understands the causes and consequences of the agricultural and industrial revolutions from 1750 to 1850.
Benchmark: knows the extent of slave imports to Brazil, Spanish America, the British West Indies, the French West Indies, British North America, and the U.S. and how the influx of slaves differed in the periods 1701 to 1810 and 1811 to 1871.

Grade level: 9-12
Subject area: U.S. history
Standard: understands how the values and institutions of European economic life took root in the colonies and how slavery reshaped European and African life in the Americas.
Benchmark: understands the characteristics of mercantilism in colonial America (e.g., overseas trade and the Navigation Acts, the Atlantic economy and the triangular trade, economic development in French, English and Spanish colonies).

Grade level: 9-12
Subject area: U.S. history
Standard: understands how the values and institutions of European economic life took root in the colonies and how slavery reshaped European and African life in the Americas.
Benchmark: understands the conditions of slavery (e.g., “the middle passage”) and the response of enslaved Africans (slave resistance in different parts of the Americas).

Grade level: 9-12
Subject area: civics/government
Standard: understands issues concerning the disparities between ideals and reality in American political and social life.
Benchmark: knows the discrepancies between American ideals and the realities of American social and political life (e.g., the ideal of equal opportunity and the reality of unfair discrimination).


Credit: These standards are from Content Knowledge: A Compendium of Standards and Benchmarks for K-12 Education, based on the standards put forth by the major national standards groups, including the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM), the National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE), the National Science Teachers Association (NSTA), the Geography Education Standards Project, and many others. The compendium has been provided to Discovery Channel School courtesy of Mid-Continent Regional Educational Laboratory (McREL) in Aurora, Colorado.