Slavery And The Making Of America Movie Essay

The film's intended audience are American's because it shows several facts. This helps America understand the real truth of the history no other class will teach or has taught in grade school. Some clues were stated in the beginning with Morgan Freeman narrating by saying, "... it is a story the demand for freedom told through the lives of enslaved people and it’s the story of the founding fathers you never knew." This is directing to those who are led to an erroneous answer of how America started and how enslaved people weren't even known as that to be “founding fathers ". Another clue is how the film shows the injustice happening with Frances Driggus. In her case, she was constantly found guilty because the court would not take notice of

The film Slavery & the Making of America (Episode 1) starts with discussing the beginning of exploitation in Africa and the other main plot of slavery. In this film we see how indentured slaves and enslaves from Africa and Europe were nonetheless exploited. It was then that the Dutch wanted to make more money by free labor and in that were described as the first 11 enslaved men to arrive in New Amsterdam by the Dutch West India Company. These men are described in this film to be the backbone of New Amsterdam alongside the indentured men because they created the infrastructure. As the number of slaves grew, their chance at freedom was also still on the table when they received half freedom. Although it wasn't complete freedom it was a gateway towards that. But soon after Blacks received their freedom, the film described it to be worse than being a

I think the directors wanted to express through this film on how to move forward in America by looking at the actual facts of how it started. The key issue discussed in this film was how slavery was headed to freedom at an early point of time until it hit a “downward spiral" that lasted for over 200 years and continue its spiral into different ways (such as segregation, racism) to Africans or Black Americans. The theme of this film is to look deeper at the facts and understand the true history. The film chose this specific theme and issue because it shows what is wrong with how America teaches the history in grade schools. This is because throughout grade school I was taught to look up to men like George Washington as he was the first president and did so much for the country. Or Christopher Columbus a man I was taught in grade school who “discovered America". It wasn't until in college they start teaching the true facts behind all these “great men ". I now know of the people that created the infrastructures before George Washington's time. I learned that Columbus didn't discover America because there were people already on this land and all he did was cause pain towards Native Americans. This film not only shines a light on the truth, but it tells us to seek the truth and not give in what is told to