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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.
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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful
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This is an excellent documentary which captures some of the best parts of Simon Schama's book. The story of the ex-slaves who fought for the British during the American War of Independence. Recommended viewing!
3 of 5 people found the following review helpful
By RR Waller
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Schama is an experienced documentary film-maker; he and his team know how to get the best out of the medium. In this drama-documentary, they build on earlier successes to create a very informative, moving, shocking and engaging history of an aspect of American history which still resonates today.
Unless read by a vivid, creative imagination, scholarly history can remain just that - scholarly words on the page; drama documentary breathes life into it, the words rise from the page and become what they always were, the lives of real people. Schama has always had a flair for imbuing history with vividness and breathing life into stuffy history without an excess of voyeuristic, gratuitous drama.
This creates the slavery industry before our eyes; history becomes "now" and reverberates. One can ask little more from a historian.
Recommended.
Unless read by a vivid, creative imagination, scholarly history can remain just that - scholarly words on the page; drama documentary breathes life into it, the words rise from the page and become what they always were, the lives of real people. Schama has always had a flair for imbuing history with vividness and breathing life into stuffy history without an excess of voyeuristic, gratuitous drama.
This creates the slavery industry before our eyes; history becomes "now" and reverberates. One can ask little more from a historian.
Recommended.
6 of 12 people found the following review helpful
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Interesting bit of American history, superb story-telling by the British-born Professor of history Simon Schama. Moreover the situation of Afro-American is a current with the election of Democratic senator Obama on 4th November 2008. After more than two centuries we can finally see the start of a new America... Freedom at last?
5 of 12 people found the following review helpful
By Fantasy
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It's a great documentary/drama of Simon Schama's epic-Rough Crossings. The movie captures the key chapters and characters of the book. It's an excellent combination of documentary and drama. The acting and editing are terrific. Watching this movie makes you want to read the book, badly.
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