| Enslavement to Emancipation – A DC Emancipation Documentary
Enslavement to Emancipation, an informative documentary on District history, premiered on DC Channel 16 on April 16, 2009, the 147th anniversary of the day President Abraham Lincoln signed the District of Columbia Compensated Emancipation Act.
Two years in the making, a partnership between the Office of the Secretary of the District of Columbia and the Office of Cable Television has produced a one-hour documentary that tells the story of Washington, DC from slavery, through emancipation and up to the present day. The Office of the Secretary has also published the booklet Ending Slavery in the Nation’s Capital, a 20 page account of DC’s struggle for freedom. For more DC Emancipation Day information please visit www.dc.gov/emancipationday.
The Film Enslavement to Emancipation features the following speakers:
Clarence Davis – Historian
Roger Davidson, PhD – Professor of History, Coppin State University
C.R. Gibbs – Author / Historian
Elizabeth Clark-Lewis, PhD – Professor of History, Howard University
Josephine F. Pacheco, PhD – Professor Emerita of History, George Mason University
Patsy Fletcher – Historian
Hari Jones – African American Civil War Museum
Gregory Bosworth – Professor of History, University of the District of Columbia
Donna M. Wells – Prints & Photographs Librarian, Moorland-Spingarn Research Center
Paul Washington – Civil Rights Activist
Reverend Jerry Moore – Former DC Councilmember
Sterling Tucker, Esq. – Chairman of the First Elected DC Council
Loretta Carter Hanes – Historian
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