From Slavery to Freedom is a companion historical documentary that accompanies Chapter 1: My First Adventure in The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones. It appears on Disc 1 of Volume 1. It has a run-time of 30 minutes, 8 seconds.
Official summary[]
Humanity has lived in, with and on the profits of slavery for most of its history. Many of its greatest achievements and monuments have tragically been built on the backs of slave labor. How could people place their economic needs ahead of the humanity of their fellow beings? How could this horrific system have lasted for so long? In this documentary track the history of slavery from Ancient Greece, to the Crusades, to the colonization of the new world and the racial slavery that sparked the American Civil War. The journey from slavery to freedom is incomplete and continues as there are still over 20 million people enslaved today.
Summary[]
Credits[]
Produced and Written by Mark Page.
Further resources[]
The Interactive Timeline of The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones DVD box sets provides a list of additional media related to the topics covered in the documentary.
Books[]
- Politics Book One, Aristotle
- Disposable People, Kevin Bales – Berkeley: University of California Press (1999)
- New Slavery: A Reference Handbook – ABC-CLIO (2000)
- Escape from Slavery: The True Story of My Ten Years in Captivity—and My Journey to Freedom in America, Francis Bok; Edward Tivnan – St. Martin's Press (2003)
- The Problems of Slavery in Western Culture, David Brion Davis
- Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass: An American Slave, Frederick Douglass
- The Age of Voltaire, Will Durant
- The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa the African, Olaudah Equiano (1789)
- History of Slavery, Suzanne Everest – Secaucus, NJ: Chartwell House (1996)
- Ideas of Slavery from Aristotle to Augustine, Peter Garnsey – Cambridge, Cambridge University Press (1996)
- The Enlightenment, Peter Gay – New York: Alfred A. Knopf (1966)
- Slavery: A World History, Milton Meltzer
- The Spirit of the Laws, Montesquieu
- Beloved, Toni Morrison
- The Problem of Slavery in the Age of Revolution 1770-1823 2nd ed. – Oxford University Press on Demand (1999)
- Islam: An Introduction, Annemarie Schimmel
- Slavery and Human Progress
- Annals, Tacitus
- Unchained Memories, Readings from the Slave Narratives – New York: Bulfinch Press (2002)
- Up from Slavery, Booker T. Washington (1901)
- A Peculiar Institution: A Primer On American Slavery, Martha L. Wharton, Ph.D
Films[]
- Spartacus (1960)
- Amistad (1997)
- Beloved (1998)
- Amazing Grace (2007)
- Roots (1977)
- A Woman Called Moses (1978)
- Slavery and the Making of America (2005)
- Africans in America (1999)
- Frontline: Sex Slaves (2005)
Links[]
- Resisting Slavery in Ancient Rome – BBC
- The Atlantic Slave Trade and Slave Life in the Americas (Web archive)
- Slave Narratives, 1936-1938 – U.S. Library of Congress
- Slaves and the Courts, 1740-1860 – U.S. Library of Congress
- Anti-Slavery International
- 21st Century Slaves – National Geographic (Web archive)
