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THE BIRTH OF A NATION LESSON PROMPT - State Sponsored Violence

Download or Stream State Sponsored Violence Lesson Prompt for the motion picture THE BIRTH OF A NATION. This clip features the film's dramatization of slave catchers on patrol and the manner in which they controlled the slave population in Virginia in 1831.

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Prompt Question: Slave Patrols were the 19th Century precursors to modern law enforcement. Does our current system of law enforcement play a role in race/class based based oppression?

Run time: 1:30

ABOUT THE FILM:

Set against the backdrop of the antebellum South, THE BIRTH OF A NATION follows Nat Turner (Nate Parker), a literate slave and preacher, whose financially strained owner, Samuel Turner (Armie Hammer), accepts an offer to use Nat's preaching to subdue unruly slaves. As he witnesses countless atrocities - against himself and his fellow slaves - Nat orchestrates an uprising in the hopes of leading his people to freedom.

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