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Stories from the Road to Freedom DVD

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This 2-hour special, narrated by Deon Cole, gives a fresh perspective of the black movement in America, from Emancipation to the Civil Rights era. The special uses first-hand accounts, rare audio recordings, never-before-seen archival footage, and home movies to chronicle African American life as lived by regular people, in their own words, through 150 years of social upheaval.

THE VOICE OF THE FIRST BLACK FORMER SLAVE MESSAGE TO HIS FORMER MASTER WAS PRICELESS...HIS REPLY TO HIM ASKING IF HE WOULD RETURN TO THE SOUTH TO WORK FOR HIM WAS...

HE WOULD GLADLY RETURN IF HIS FROMER MASTER SHOWED HIM GOOD FAITH WHCH WOULD BE TO SEND HIM AND HIS WIFE PAY FOR THE 25 YEARS OF HIS WORK AND 20 YEARS OFHIS WIFE'S WORK WHICH COME TO A LITTLE OVER $11,000 (ROTFL) (S-M-I-L-E)

SURE HOPE WE ARE READY FOR SOME OF OUR OWN HISTORY STRAIGHT OUT OF OUR OWN MOUTHS.(SMILE)

OOPS, ALMOST FROGOT THIS PART OF HIS MESSAGE TO HIS FORMER MASTER...HE ASKED HIM TO THANK THE PERSON FOR HIM WHO TOOK TEH GUN FROM HIS HANDS AS HE WAS SHOOTING AT HIM...NOW THAT WAS RUBBING SALT IN AN ALREDY OPEN WOUND.LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOL(SMILE)

THANKS AND BLESS YOU STEVE...CHANGE IS ALWAYS HARD BUT THERE WILL ALWAYS BE 'CHANGE'...

BECAUSE, MORE AND MORE MANKIND BEGINS TO BELIEVE , "THEY HAVE W-I-L-L " (S-M-I-L-E)