© 2000 by Natalie Zemon Davis

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First published in Canada by Vintage Canada, a Division of Random House of Canada Limited.

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Canadian Cataloguing in Data Publication

Davis, Natalie Zemon
Slaves on screen

(The Barbara Frum lectureship)

eISBN: 978-0-307-36885-0

1. Historical films - History and criticism.   2. Slavery in motion pictures.   I. Title.   II. Series: The Barbara Frum lecture series.

PN1995.9.H5D38 2000       79I.43′658       C99-93200-0

Cover image: Ivory bust, Nora August, 1865. Sea Island Company, Sea Island, Georgia. Photograph of the bust courtesy of the Museum of the Confederacy, Richmond, Virginia.

Photography by Katherine Wetzel.

See this page for illustration credits.

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