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Celebrating Black Canadian Art, History, Literature, and Poetry
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Washington Black, an eleven-year-old slave, is chosen to be the manservant of Christopher Wilde who takes him on adventures around the globe.
3) I am slave
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Based on a memoir by Mende Nazer of her real-life experiences of being kidnapped by Arab slave raiders in 1993, along with 30 other children and sold into slavery. This film depicts one woman's escape from modern-day slavery. The story unfolds as twelve-year-old Malia, is abducted from her Sudanese village in the Nubar Mountains by pro-government Arab militia and sold into slavery to a woman in Khartoum. After six years she is sent to London with...
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Two children trapped in the same attic, almost a century apart, bound by a shared secret. Early 1900s London: Taken from his homeland, twelve-year-old Celestine spends most of the time locked away in the attic of a large house by the sea. The only time Celestine isn't bound by confines of the small space is when he is acting as an unpaid servant to English explorer Sir Richard Babbington, As the years pass, he desperately clings on to memories of...
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"A thousand years ago, one boy with a dream of becoming a great warrior is abducted with his sister and taken to a land far away from home. Thrown into a world where greed and injustice rule all, Bilal finds the courage to raise his voice and make a change. Inspired by true events, this is a story of a real hero who earned his remembrance in time and history."--www.imdb.com.
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