We will view the film “Unchained Memories: Readings from the Slave Narratives.” When the Civil War ended in 1865, more than 4 million slaves were set free. By the late 1930s, 100,000 former slaves were still alive. During this time, the Federal Writers Project hired journalists and writers to travel the county and record the memories of this last generation of African-Americans born into bondage. Over 2,000 interviews were transcribed as spoken, in the vernacular of the time, to form a unique historical record. Narrated by Whoopi Goldberg and featuring dramatic readings by Angela Bassett, Don Cheadle, Ozzie Davis, Ruby Dee, Samuel Jackson, Oprah Winfrey, and others, the film breathes the voices of the living into these transcripts from the past.