Authors and Directors

Find below the authors and directors of the selected films and books.

 

Clement Virgo

Together with Lawrence Hill, who wrote neo-slave narrative The Book of Negroes in 2007, Canadian filmmaker Clement Virgo worked on a TV mini-series by the same name and based on Hill's novel in 2015.

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Nate Parker

37-year-old actor-turned-director debuted with his first film in 2016: The Birth of a Nation.

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Quentin Tarantino

The well-known director who took on the topic of slavery in 2012 by creating Django Unchained.

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Steve

Jamaican-British filmmaker Steve McQueen created his masterpiece 12 Years a Slavein 2013, basing it on Solomon Northup's book with the same name.

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Thomas R. Gray

In 1831, lawyer-turned-writer Thomas Gray interviews Nat Turner before his execution and published his notes in a book entitled The Confessions of Nat Turner.

 

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