A moving history based on real events that shows the cruelty of slavery in the United States.
He Prime Video Catalog He has among his films one of the best works starring Will Smith In recent years. Released in 2022 and directed by Antoine Fuqua, Emancipation It is a raw story that shows the experiences of blacks in the fields where they were forced to harvest cotton for whites.
With one duration of 132 minutesdrama and tension coexist to get into a struggle history and, precisely, emancipation. The film focuses on Peter, a enslaved man who will do the impossible to escape the forced labor to whom he was forced and return with his family, who promised them that he would return alive.
Emancipation
What is emancipation, the movie available in Prime Video
The 1863 year in the United Statesand despite the fact that the president Abraham Lincoln sanctioned a law to abolish slaverythis was not yet followed by many southern states, peasants with cotton crops. In this context, Peter is arrested by a rast that takes him against his will and promises to have him working until his death.
Given this situation, with other slaves, an idea of a plan to escape. But it is not so simple, the field is surrounded by a dangerous swamp, where there are crocodiles and other obstacles such as a hostile swamp terrain and the uncertainty of not knowing where to leave. In addition, the stagnas have ready horses and hunting dogs to continue to the minimum trace.
Prime Video: Emancipation Trailer
Prime Video: Emancipation cast
- Will Smith (Peter)
- Ben Foster (FASSEL)
- Mustafa Shakir (Lt. Andrew Cailloux)
- Ronnie Gene Blevins (Harrington)
- Charmaine Bingwa (Dodienne)
- Gilbert Owuor (Gordon)
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