The Book of Negroes (6 Episodes) - 3-Disc Box Set

The Book of Negroes (6 Episodes) - 3-Disc Box Set (Blu-Ray) (*)

$36.99

Screened, competed or awarded at:
Other Film Festival Awards

Language Selections:
English ( DTS 5.1 )
English ( DTS-HD Master Audio )
German ( DTS 5.1 )
German ( DTS-HD Master Audio )
German ( Subtitles )

Product Origin/Format:
Germany ( Blu-Ray/Region B )

Running Time:
278 min

Aspect Ratio:
Widescreen (1.78:1)

Special Features:
3-DVD Set
Box Set
Cast/Crew Interview(s)
Deleted Scenes
Interactive Menu
Making Of
Photo Gallery
Scene Access
Trailer(s)
Booklet

Movie filmed in 2015 and produced in:
Canada ( USA, Canada )

Directed By:
Clement Virgo

Written By:
Lawrence Hill
Clement Virgo

Actors:
Aunjanue Ellis ..... Aminata Diallo
Lyriq Bent ..... Chekura Tiano
Ben Chaplin ..... Cpt. John Clarkson
Allan Hawco ..... Solomon Lindo
Greg Bryk ..... Robertson Appleby
Shailyn Pierre-Dixon ..... Young Aminata
Cara Ricketts ..... Bertilda
Sandra Caldwell ..... Georgia
Dwain Murphy ..... Claiborne
Louis Gossett Jr. ..... Daddy Moses
Antonio David Lyons ..... Happy Jack (2 episodes, 2015)
Siya Xaba ..... Young Chekura
Cuba Gooding Jr. ..... Sam Fraunces
Armand Aucamp ..... Lieutenant Waters (2 episodes, 2015)
Robin Smith ..... William King

Synopsis:

In 1750, eleven-year-old Aminata Diallo is abducted from her village in West Africa, placed in shackles and sent across the ocean to be sold into slavery on a South Carolina plantation. She falls in love and marries a fellow West African slave named Chekura but when their baby is brutally abducted and sold by jealous slave master, Robinson Appleby, Aminata vows to return one day to her homeland. Solomon Lindo, a sympathetic indigo inspector, plucks Aminata out of Appleby's enslavement and takes her to New York where she attempts a successful escape. Amidst the rising threat of the American War of Independence, she is recruited by Sir John Clarkson to help register names of Black British Loyalists in a ledger known as The Book of Negroes, granting them freedom and passage to Nova Scotia. Separated from her husband, Aminata encounters more hardship in Nova Scotia when tensions flare between the White and Black communities over the scarcity of work in the Shelburne Riots. Aminata successfully petitions British abolitionists, who organize passage to Africa for 1,200 former slaves - a final voyage that will reunite her with her homeland and allow her to give voice to her life story.

Kidnapped in Africa and subsequently enslaved in South Carolina, Aminata must navigate a revolution in New York, isolation in Nova Scotia and treacherous jungles of Sierra Leone, in an attempt to secure her freedom in the 18th century.

The Book of Negroes is a miniseries based on the novel of the same name by Lawrence Hill. The six-part miniseries derives its origins from the historical document Book of Negroes and tells the story of a woman forcefully brought to South Carolina from West Africa at the time of the American Revolution.

This product was added to our catalog on Tuesday 30 August, 2016.