Thanks, Zuhairah and Fanon, for sending this to me:
Mos Def will narrate the 2007 American Black Film Festival Winner for Best Documentary, Prince Among Slaves. The program airs on Channel 13/WNET here in New York on Monday, February 4th at 10:00 PM and Wednesday, February 6th at 2:30. Check PBS.org for listings in your area.
As you can see from the description below, this promises to be an amazing television experience:
The Amazing True Story of an African Prince Enslaved in the American South
Coming to PBS February 4th, 10PM
(check local listings at pbs.org)
A Documentary Film by Unity Productions Foundation
Narrated by Mos Def
Michael Wolfe and Alex Kronemer, Executive Producers
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.
After enduring the brutal Middle Passage, he eventually ended up in
Mississippi at the birth of the U.S., where he remained enslaved for almost 40 years. Amazing circumstances finally led to his release, but not his freedom, nor the freedom of his large family.
Defying the command 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 leaders of the day.
Prince Among Slaves paints a vivid picture of the extraordinary times in
which this remarkable man lived, interweaving the universal themes of
bondage and deliverance, privation and perseverance, to tell a story of
survival of the human spirit about a person who endured the humiliation of slavery without ever losing his dignity or his hope for freedom.