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VHS 50 minutes: "Written and produced by Jonathan Dent. Provides many fascinating and surprising details at excavations of 18th-century slave quarters on Middleburg Plantation near Charleston; at Monticello, the home of Thomas Jefferson, whose slave holdings seem so irreconcilable with his expressed views on human freedom; and at Colonial Williamsburg, which until recently neglected to show the lives of the slaves, who made up over half the town's population." Description from WorldCat.

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VHS videotape 57 minutes, produced by South Carolina Educational Television: "The story of the Gullah people of coastal South Carolina and Georgia and how they forged a culture distinctly their own." Description by WorldCat.

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VHS tape, Trident Preductions, Inc., (holds two rough cuts): "Passed down from generation to generation, slaves from Western Africa first introduced the grass basket to rice plantations along the Southeast coast more than 300 years ago." Description from WorldCat.

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VHS tape, 58 minutes, produced by South Carolina Educational Television: "A documentary exploring the cultural, historical, and linguistic connections between the 'Gullah' people of the Southeastern United States, and the people of Sierra Leone in West Africa, A delegation of Gullah people travels from the United States to Sierra Leone to trace the roots of their heritage." Description from WorldCat. This tape highlights "rice processing and basketry."

VHS tape, 180 minutes, produced by PBS: ""Craft in America is an exploration into the hearts and minds of artisans devoted to a diverse array of mediums -- from furniture making and basket weaving to pottery and metalsmithing. Each episode reveals that craft has earned itself a place within the realm of fine art" Description from WorldCat. Sweetgrass basketmaker, Mary Jackson is featured.

VHS tape produced by Trident Productions, Inc.