Produced by Unity Productions Foundation
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PRINCE AMONG SLAVES will be a vivid, dramatic feature film of an extraordinary man in extraordinary times, interweaving universal themes of bondage and deliverance, pride and forbearance, guile and providence with the wild and unruly early years of America's Kingdom of Cotton. The characters in this true story are larger than life: a courageous, wily, and educated
Prince snatched from his throne; am expansive Faulknerian plantation family riven by alcohol and madness; a conflicted Northern journalist partial to a slave's fate yet beholden to the interests of slaveholders; the Great Conciliator
Henry Clay, U.S. Secretary of State;
Andrew Jackson, one-time slaver and Presidential candidate; and his opponent
John Quincy Adams, American President. The Setting is Natchez, Mississippi, a well-preserved antebellum town, where more millionaires lived in 1820 than in New York, where Cotton was King, and where, today, over 200 plantation homes are on the National registry. Produced by Unity Productions Foundation, the narrator is renowned hip-hop artist and actor
Mos Def (
The Italian Job,
16 Blocks). The film is directed by
Andrea Kalin (
Partners of the Heart,
The Pact) with
Bill Duke as the Director of Reenactments (
A Raisin in the Sun,
A Rage in Harlem).
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