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Will Smith’s New Slavery Film Took a Big Risk. Did It Pay Off?

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By Barbara Krauthamer
| Slate Verified
Movies A producer brought the photo that inspired Emancipation to its premiere. The fallout was telling. The opening title sequence in the movie Emancipation, now streaming on Apple TV+ after a brief theatrical release, tells us that the film is based on a true story. That is, in part, the case.
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The Best Books for Juneteenth

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By Mitch Kachun, Barbara Krauthamer, Deborah Willis
| Five Books
Juneteenth is our topic. Beginning with the basics, for our international audience, what is Juneteenth? Juneteenth is a celebration in African American communities, widely recognized since the end of the Civil War, marking the day, June 19th, when the Union Army arrived in Texas and announced that the Confederacy was defeated and slavery had been abolished. We’re discussing five books which shed light on Juneteenth; let’s begin with Mitch Kachun’s Festivals of Freedom.
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Slavery’s Grotesque and Relentless Violence

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By Barbara Krauthamer
| The Chronicle of Higher Education Verified
As viewers flock to see Lincoln, and reviewers rave about Daniel Day-Lewis’s performance, historians are raising different issues: How accurate is the film’s portrayal of emancipation? What does it leave out? The Chronicle Review asked several scholars to weigh in. Lincoln tells the story of slavery’s demise in the United States by charting the president’s battle to secure passage of the 13th Amendment.
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