Prince Among Slaves trailer

Prince Among Slaves follows the true life story of Abdul-Rahman Ibrahima Sori, the prince of a large African Kingdom and Captain of his father's armies who was captured in a battle in 1788 and sold into the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade. Directed by Andrea Kalin and narrated by Mos Def, the film follows Abdul-Rahman through the brutal Middle Passage, and his eventually arrival in Mississippi at the birth of the U.S., where he remained enslaved for almost 40 years. Near providential circumstances finally led to his release, but not his freedom, nor the freedom of his large family. Defying the edict that he return immediately to Africa and still technically a slave, Abdul-Rahman set out on a quest to raise enough money to purchase his family's freedom. Widely written about and sought after for public events, he became the most famous African in America, meeting with President John Quincy Adams and other leading luminaries of the day.




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Film & Animation

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• Prince Among Slaves
• Spark Media
• slavery
• middle passage
• slave trade
• Andrea Kalin