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Ex Libris: The New York Public Library

Kings violated, you know, traditional protocols by enslaving clerics en mass e, and so...

Kings violated, you know, traditional protocols by enslaving clerics en mass e, and so this leads to really heightened tension in the 18th century, but it also leads to a situation in the 18th century where the clerics are politically weak

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Kings violated, you know, traditional protocols
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by enslaving clerics en mass e, and so this leads
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to really heightened tension in the 18th century,
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but it also leads to a situation in the 18th century
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where the clerics are politically weak.
Duration
18 seconds
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18
Timestamp in Movie
00:19:11
Uploaded
Oct 29, 2025
Genres
documentary
Production
Zipporah Films,JustFilms / Ford Foundation,PBS

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A look within the walls of the New York Public Library.
And it's part of the reason why the slave trade - Ex Libris: The New York Public Library 00:07
And it's part of the reason why the slave trade
And there's all kinds of critiques that come - Ex Libris: The New York Public Library 00:24
And there's all kinds of critiques that come
And that's the kind of thing - Ex Libris: The New York Public Library 00:08
And that's the kind of thing
This is a notion which is very pervasive - Ex Libris: The New York Public Library 00:08
This is a notion which is very pervasive
Either that there is a, there is something - Ex Libris: The New York Public Library 00:10
Either that there is a, there is something
There's your local story, - Ex Libris: The New York Public Library 00:12
There's your local story,
So, the short answer is that we were told a lie - Ex Libris: The New York Public Library 00:22
So, the short answer is that we were told a lie
And, and to monopolize claims on freedom - Ex Libris: The New York Public Library 00:11
And, and to monopolize claims on freedom
So that Islam and African society - Ex Libris: The New York Public Library 00:14
So that Islam and African society
And so the way in which we approached - Ex Libris: The New York Public Library 00:10
And so the way in which we approached
It was polemical, and people refer - Ex Libris: The New York Public Library 00:20
It was polemical, and people refer
Whereas once you start to scratch the surface - Ex Libris: The New York Public Library 00:21
Whereas once you start to scratch the surface
And that he himself had freed any person - Ex Libris: The New York Public Library 00:16
And that he himself had freed any person
So what I was doing is trying to tell a historical story - Ex Libris: The New York Public Library 00:20
So what I was doing is trying to tell a historical story
This revolution in the Senegal River Valley - Ex Libris: The New York Public Library 00:14
This revolution in the Senegal River Valley
Clerics traditionally in this region were people - Ex Libris: The New York Public Library 00:10
Clerics traditionally in this region were people
They taught themselves to do it, because they said, - Ex Libris: The New York Public Library 00:11
They taught themselves to do it, because they said,
First the slave trade, - Ex Libris: The New York Public Library 00:27
First the slave trade,
Even if we end up selling out pretty hard - Ex Libris: The New York Public Library 00:08
Even if we end up selling out pretty hard
But it's also one that, that is seeking - Ex Libris: The New York Public Library 00:06
But it's also one that, that is seeking