One of the underground railroads most notable conductors. In Harriet Tubman the road to freedom, it details her time as a scout, a sky, and a nurse for the union army. Clinton describes her work from march 2004. Thank you. Good evening. Good evening. Wake up yall, it is early. All right. Thats a little better. I was running late, but did i come prepared . All right. I would not let you down. Anyone someone has a conversation about someone as important in black history and American History as Harriet Tubman, a conversation about Harriet Tubman and a footnote in african American History and American History books and finally we have a serious historical study about Harriet Tubman. Im not going to discuss the book, because the author is here. Theres plenty of books to go out and buy. What i would like to do is discuss the Historical Context in which this book talks about Harriet Tubman. Too often we dont discuss american slavery in the public schools, or Catholic Schools or any of the sch
Daughter. I think that also goes with someone and how this appeals to women and obviously it draws women in as well. So where does all of this leave us . Were almost out of time. Where does all of this leave us . I think in some ways red and scarret are potentially the most historically accurate actors. They are appealing figures both j of them. In 1939, millions of americans who might think that they would be marching off to war before long as well. Scarlets rather heady mixture of flawed, passion, endurance, determination, experiences did peeled to many people. The story in review of the film pointed out one of the earliest reviewers the novel noted its one of the virtues of her book that she presents the myth of the lost cause without being taken in by it or asking us to accept it. That she makes cheer reasons for the vitality and ultimate demise. We can see this is not true of the movie. It overindulges and wallows in lost cause roamanticism. She also describes reconstruction as a
Image of a time that never really was. Its something beautiful, romantic and exciting and they can get away from how much their lives absolutely suck. Thats why the movie industry does incredibly well during the great depression. You wouldnt think it does well, but it does incredibly well for that reason. So we are to the point where we talk about what the movie does right. 12 minutes left. How does the movie measure up historically speaking when dealing with some of the elite white characters and their lives. Better or worse than how they deal with africanamericans . Hard to be worse than the treatment of africanamericans, so then better. So Laura Michael and brooke at the beginning talk about, i think, sort of overall southern white perceptions of race. And brooke makes the argument both of them make the argument that this is an accurate depiction of the way whites perceived the way things went or an accurate portrayal of the souths memory of that time at that time. So again to that
Its 150 years since the u. S. Civil war and a number of countre are under way this year and next to mark the occasion. Over the next new hours, were going to take a look at hollywoods perception of the issues. Now, a panel of history professors traces slavery as depicted in films in the 1930s. This hour and a half event is from the society from civil war historians bihandle meeting in baltimore. In the past two years, three feature filmses who focus is american slavery and emancipation have been released to positive and often glowing reviews and all of them were profitable. Django unchained made 160 milli million. Lincoln made 182 million. 12 years a slade made 26 million but only cost 26 million to make. Roughly the same. This mini upsurge has provoked a lot of debate and discussion about the depictions of slavery and freedom of film and other forms of media, visual media and television and documentary, youtube shorts and different series. We are continue iing that conversation today.
Framed the idea of slavery. They also describe changes in gender portrayals and how they have shifted into leading roles. This event is from the society of civil war historians i annual meeting. It is about 1. 5 hours. In the past two years, three feature films whose focus is american slavery and emancipation have been released to positive and often glowing reviews. All of them were profitable. Django unchained made 160 Million Dollars at the box office. Lincoln made 182 million. 12 years a slave, made 56 million, but only cost 20 million to make. This sort of miniupsurge has provoked a lot of debate and discussion about depictions of slavery and freedom in film and other forms of media. In television, documentaries, and youtube shorts, different series. We are continuing the conversation today. All of our panelists are fierce scholars of the American South and of race and gender. They have also written about, reviewed, taught courses on, and consulted for films about slavery. Catherin