Rough Crossings
2007
Rough Crossings is the astonishing story of the struggle to freedom by thousands of African-American slaves who fled the plantations to fight behind British lines in the American War of Independence. With gripping, powerfully vivid story-telling, Simon Schama follows the escaped blacks into the fires of the war, and into .. Read more
| Starring | Pres. Simon Schama, Simon Schama, Stephen Cambell Moore, Leo Wringer |
|---|---|
| Director | Steve Condie |
| Genres | Drama |
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Rough Crossings
Rough Crossings is the astonishing story of the struggle to freedom by thousands of African-American slaves who fled the plantations to fight behind British lines in the American War of Independence. With gripping, powerfully vivid story-telling, Simon Schama follows the escaped blacks into the fires of the war, and into freezing, inhospitable Nova Scotia where many who had served the Crown were betrayed in their promises to receive land at the war's end. Their fate became entwined with British abolitionists: inspirational figures such as Granville Sharp, the flute-playing father-figure of slave freedom, and John Clarkson, the 'Moses' of this great exodus, who accompanied the blacks on their final rough crossing to Africa, wher they hoped that freedom would finally greet them.
| Starring | Pres. Simon Schama, Simon Schama, Stephen Cambell Moore, Leo Wringer, Joseph Marcell |
|---|---|
| Director | Steve Condie |
| Studio | 2 ENTERTAIN VIDEO |
| Run time | DVD: 1 hr 25 mins |
| Certificate | |
| Genres | Drama |
| Language | DVD: English |
| Hearing-impaired | English |
| Released | DVD: 30 Jul 2007 Production year: 2007 |
| Format | DVD |
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Excellent
A great story.I would thoroughly recommend this,tremendous acting and very thought provoking.Watch it!
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Shame about the bias
This was a disappointing offering from the man who gave us such masterpieces in his Power of Art and History of Britain series. It tells the history of the former slaves who fought for the British in the American War of Independence and eventually escaped to a conditional freedom in the British colony of Freetown in West Africa. Weirdly, the story is told mainly from the point of view of the white man who was their first governor, with the black colonists themselves being almost in the background. It comes close to being patronising, the last thing I would have expected from Schama.
That said, the story is told competently, although the interweaving of dramatization and documentary is rather insipid. -
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Rough Crossings
Rough Crossings is the astonishing story of the struggle to freedom by thousands of African-American slaves who fled the plantations to fight behind British lines in the American War of Independence. With gripping, powerfully vivid story-telling, Simon Schama follows the escaped blacks into the ...
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