The Birth Of A Nation - Trailer

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Nat Turner was a former slave who on witnessing the scope of slavery across America chose to head a liberation movement in the form of a slave rebellion that resulted in a violent retaliation from the white supremacists in Virginia, 1831. This periodic drama film introduces the audience to the world in which Black people were enslaved in - inhumanly treated at the peril of the white race. The chilling shot of a young white child playing a game with a lynching rope around another black girls neck represents this serious period of history in a thought provoking scene.

Turner as a slave boy was taught to read so that he could travel the country and preach the Bible to other slaves and it was in doing this task that he realised the seriousness of the oppression of slavery on humanity and how a change needed to happen. This leads to his involvement in a violent slave rebellion that results in a battle between the races.