150 years since the end of the Civil War, slavery remains the scar that just won’

men chained and beaten, their limbs ripped apart by dogs, and any kind of resistance

secret that Smith turned down the lead role in “Django Unchained

and Fuqua approach the subject of slavery with the same care Hollywood typically brings to

there’s an educational element to the experience, and the tone seems appropriately sober

dramatic engine is that of a lean, mean manhunt movie

the photo of Peter may be, precious little is known about the man it depicts (

to fill in what’s been lost to history with elements that scholars do know

Peter as a man of faith, penitent before his god, but defiant of men

French with his family and heavily accented English to all others