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Published · transcript-backedHollis Robbins: belief
28 Aug 2019 Conversations with Tyler Hollis Robbins on 19th Century Life and Literature
“I would say the biggest inaccuracy is how close the depiction of the slave quarters was to the main house.”
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- Hollis Robbins
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- 28 Aug 2019
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- Conversations with Tyler
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…Now I’d like to turn to modern culture and go through a number of portraits of slavery. You tell me how accurate or appropriate you think they are. The movie 12 Years a Slave. Some of it was pretty accurate. I would say the biggest inaccuracy is how close the depiction of the slave quarters was to the main house. Usually, it was set at such a distance that nobody in the main house would be able to know or think about the fact of slave quarters nearby. The Quentin Tarantino movie Django.…
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