Django Unchained

• SOURCE: The Daily Beast
  2-24-13
  

  Adam Rothman: Django Unchained’s Bloody Real History in Mississippi

  Adam Rothman is an Associate Professor of History and the Director of Doctoral Studies at Georgetown University. He is the author of Slave Country: American Expansion and the Origins of the Deep South.

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• "Django Unchained's" White Abolitionist Vision

  by Stephen Kantrowitz

  Jamie Foxx as Django Freeman in Django Unchained.No one could possibly mistake Quentin Tarantino for William Lloyd Garrison, but the director's Django Unchained nevertheless belongs to the tradition of antebellum white abolitionism. The film powerfully evokes a South, and a people, entirely under the sway of slaveholders' sadistic passions. This intellectual lineage explains why its depiction of slavery is so potent, and so wrong.