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Ex Libris: The New York Public Library

Whereas once you start to scratch the surface of the actual legal opinions, you realize...

Whereas once you start to scratch the surface of the actual legal opinions, you realize that nobody agreed about anything, and there were people that never accepted the idea that any enslavement could happen beyond the time of the original wars that the prophet himself directed

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Whereas once you start to scratch the surface
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of the actual legal opinions,
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you realize that nobody agreed about anything,
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and there were people that never accepted the idea
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that any enslavement could happen
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beyond the time of the original wars
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that the prophet himself directed.
Duration
21 seconds
Views
14
Timestamp in Movie
00:21:32
Uploaded
Oct 29, 2025
Genres
documentary
Production
Zipporah Films,JustFilms / Ford Foundation,PBS

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Movie Summary

A look within the walls of the New York Public Library.
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
This is an Atlantic revolution - Ex Libris: The New York Public Library 00:11
This is an Atlantic revolution
But it's particularly regrettable - Ex Libris: The New York Public Library 00:25
But it's particularly regrettable
And that they were articulated in terms - Ex Libris: The New York Public Library 00:08
And that they were articulated in terms
They were thought through with respect - Ex Libris: The New York Public Library 00:11
They were thought through with respect
When groups come to power that are opposed - Ex Libris: The New York Public Library 00:18
When groups come to power that are opposed
He said the policy of Europeans in Africa - Ex Libris: The New York Public Library 00:15
He said the policy of Europeans in Africa
And so the... if you want to just - Ex Libris: The New York Public Library 00:10
And so the... if you want to just
This library is - Ex Libris: The New York Public Library 00:05
This library is
So, we share its mission - Ex Libris: The New York Public Library 00:08
So, we share its mission
We're also part of the New York Public Library, - Ex Libris: The New York Public Library 00:17
We're also part of the New York Public Library,
And we like to think that - Ex Libris: The New York Public Library 00:10
And we like to think that
And this recital tonight - Ex Libris: The New York Public Library 00:07
And this recital tonight