Catch a fire [videorecording] / Aimimage Productions for BBC ; written by Cecil Gutzmore, Menelik Shabazz ; producer, Annabelle Alcazar ; directed by Menelik Shabazz.
Format:
[videorecording] /
Publisher:
ArtMattan Productions,
Copyright Date:
2008
Description:
1 videodisc (30 min.) : sd., col. with b&w sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Narrator, Burt Caesar ; voice-over actors: Paul Campbell, Reggie Carter, Tony Hendricks. Originally produced for British television in 1995.
Summary:
"Catch a Fire" is an award-winning documentary/drama that tells the story of a baptist deacon, Paul Bogle, often described as a 19th century Malcom X, and George William Gordon, a wealthy mulatto politician. 30 years after the end of slavery in Jamaica, Bogle was the leader of the Morant Bay Rebellion of 1865. This rebellion provoked outrage in Victorian Britain and had a major impact on colonial attitudes to race and Empire. The story is constructed using extensive interviews with Paul Bogle's grandson as well as archival material. Phillip Bogle tells the story of how Paul became a martyr in the struggle to emancipate the poor Africans in St. Thomas, Jamaica in the period after the abolition of slavery. Paul Bogle is immortalized in the lyrics of many reggae artists.
Series:
Hidden empire
OCLC:
(OCoLC)302417153
Locations:
OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)
This resource is supported by the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act as administered by State Library of Iowa.