Liberty & Slavery

Original title: Liberty & Slavery: The Paradox of America's Founding Fathers

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2016
1h 26m

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Our Founding Fathers were yearning for a nation of individual liberty. But, the origins of America were overflowing with a deep-seated paradox. Our Founding Fathers were rallying the colonis... Read allOur Founding Fathers were yearning for a nation of individual liberty. But, the origins of America were overflowing with a deep-seated paradox. Our Founding Fathers were rallying the colonists to liberty, while many were slave owners.Our Founding Fathers were yearning for a nation of individual liberty. But, the origins of America were overflowing with a deep-seated paradox. Our Founding Fathers were rallying the colonists to liberty, while many were slave owners.

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7.4/10

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Awards
- 17 wins & 7 nominations

Trivia
The documentary was shot in dozens of locations, in more than 12 states, in world famous locales. Director Troy Thomas was was able to secure permission to shoot in all these places, yet there were two places that he was unable to gain permission: his own high school and his own college.

Goofs
In one of slave group shots, if you look very closely you can see one of the slaves walking through a tree limb wearing 21st century eyeglasses. The actress forgot to remove the glasses before resuming shooting on location, and no one on the Inertia Films staff caught it until post production.

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6/10

Black History Month

This documentary was very interesting & highly insightful. I decided to watch it as I am studying a history course at college & the the current unit is on The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade. My tutor had told the class how hypocritical people like Washington & Jefferson were for professing equality for all men but owning slaves & I wanted to find out more. It is so much more complicated than that. Most of the founding fathers of America did own slaves but they had grown up with them, it was simply a part of life. However, as time passed a lot of these men realised how horrid slavery was & although they did not abolish slavery I now believe that if they had not fought for independence & written the constitution then, that slavery would not have been abolished in America when it was.