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In this moving performance, Ruby Dee dramatizes the true testimony of a formerly enslaved person who witnessed an interaction between their mother and their master in the fields. Written by her husband, actor, playwright, and civil rights activist, Ossie Davis, this archival clip from “History of the Negro People Part III: Slavery” is from the 9-part series produced by WNET in 1965. Stream the entire episode at YOUTUBE LINK: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sE1dX7FZaT8 #BlackHistory #BroadwayAndB

Broadway actor, playwright, and civil rights activist, Ossie Davis, stars in and wrote “The History of the Negro People Part III: Slavery”- one of the episodes in a 9-part series hosted by Davis and produced by WNET in 1956. This episode is a dramatic and choral work adapted from the testimony of formerly enslaved people. Davis is joined in the performance by his wife, actress Ruby Dee, and the choral group The Voices, Inc. who perform several traditional spirituals. In this scene, Davis shares

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