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Based on a true account of enslaved resistance, Ossie Davis brings to life the story of outsmarting oppression. Ossie Davis was roadway actor, playwright, and civil rights activist who used his voice and art to tell the true stories of Black history. Source: thirteenwnet #SBM #somethingblackmade #SBM #somethingblackmade | Something Black Made

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