mae louise walls miller documentary

. Or more than likely I just wasn't taught the truth on this, like with so many other aspects of American History! They beat us, Mae Miller said. Photo Source: Antionette Harrell. ABCNEWS' John Donvan contributed to this report. I couldnt believe what I was hearing. When Louise Mae Miller was born on 7 April 1923, in Allen, Ohio, United States, her father, Marion Henry Miller, was 30 and her mother, Mary Edith Hess, was 28. Alice is an upcoming revenge thriller film starring Keke Palmer as an enslaved woman who escapes and finds out shes transported to the year 1973. A documentary on modern day slavery. But we also see her explore her Black identity through the art, music and styles that political activist Frank (Common) introduces her to. They were afraid to give this information to me, even behind closed doors decades later. [4][12][13] Mae stated to NPR that "maybe I wasn't free, but maybe it can free somebody else. The National Guard was deployed in Atlanta, what does this mean as shootings, violence plague other American cities? Who cares if it's a somewhat rip off of another movie.. if it's entertaining it doesn't matter. . Whatever it was, thats what you did for no money at all.. We thought everybody was in the same predicament. Her father, Cain, couldnt take the suffering anymore and tried to flee the property by himself in the middle of the night. Even worse, the concept is copied from another recent movie which is executed significantly better in every way. Cain believed that because he had told me what happened on the farm that the man on the TV was going to come to his house and drag him back. Summary. [16], Like most peons, the Wall family was not permitted to leave the land, was illiterate, and were under the impression that "all black people were being treated like that". Still, I'm surprised by the low score on this movie. How would they have functioned without THE BLACK WOMEN?? They still hold the power. It's just not a good movie. The younger Smith said they reached out to Ms. Miller with their intentions, and decided doing the film was not economic-driven but was a mission.. She only knew so many stories, so oftentimes she would tell the same ones over and over again. Hurling truth at Falsehood Nation of Islam responds to lies of Atty. We had to go drink water out of the creek. 'Mae's father, Cain Wall, lost his land by signing a . A trailer for the film can be viewed at http://www.theprofitmusic.com. She told me this was from years of not knowing when she would eat again. "[4] Harrell noted that "people are afraid to share their stories" because "many of the same white families who owned these plantations are still running local government and big businesses". They were not permitted to leave the land and were subject to regular beatings from the land owners. Her family pleaded with her as the punishment would come down on all of them. Speaking to ABC News, Miller said: They beat us. . Annie Miller was frightened to discuss the experience her family left behind 42 years ago. Carrie and her child Thomas had been appraised at $1,100. We had to go drink water out of the creek. But he was picked up by some folks claiming they would help him. Yes, slavery still exists in 2010 in Mississippi and Louisiana, says Timothy Arden. The elder Smith said talking about the documentary and pre-showings of the film revealed that a significant number of people know firsthand, based on having family members still on the plantations, or themselves growing up in slavery but choose to remain silent. Whatever it was, that's what you did for no money at all." "They beat us," Mae Miller said. Still takes nothing from the film and is well worth the watch. . After the show I prayed a lot and my dad had been wanting to do a documentary and God told me this is the documentary he ought to do, said Tobias Smith, who is also an independent hip hop recording artist. Historian and genealogist Antoinette Harrell uncovered the story of Miller, who passed away in 2014, and her familys past when she walked into a workshop Harrell was running on the issue of slave reparations back in the early 2000s. [7] The story inspired the 2022 film Alice. You know juneteenth but what about plantations that continued way into the 70s! Alice (Keke Palmer)is a slave on a plantation in Georgia. So, sadly, most situations of this sort go unreported. Most times she and her mother were raped simultaneously alongside each other. I could never imagine going through something like that. Even if you could run, where would you go? They didnt feed us. Their story, which ABCNEWS has not confirmed independently, is not unheard of. SO WHAT!!! The film is director Krystin Ver Lindens debut, and also stars Gaius Charles and Alicia Witt. There's a lot of people out there that's really enslaved and don't know how to get out. Also, Keke's presence and acting added the icing to the cake. 1. #peonage #slavery #Aboriginal #Israelites #Deuteronomy #blm #slavery #truthfullyhonest #cancelled community #Ghana #Africa #Karen This has to be true. As a child, Miller would get sent up to the landowner's house on the. But Mae and I became good friends and would lecture together. Weaving reality with fiction making it a disturbing, yet entertaining movie. The upper class Blacks look at it and they are shocked, said Timothy Smith. These people were forced to work, violently tortured, and raped. This is the shocking true story its inspired by. Photo by Nathan Benn/Corbis via Getty Images. As I would realize, people are afraid to share their stories, because in the South so many of the same white families who owned these plantations are still running local government and big businesses. | African American field hands "choppin' cotton" under the hot sun of the Mississippi Delta. What did they do after Emancipation in 1863? Driving down to the deltas of Mississippi, looking at the house that they lived in, it was hard to believe that people would live in houses like that.". Some of those folks were tied to that land into the 1960s. According to a series of interviews published by Vice, historian and genealogist Antionette Harrell has uncovered long-hidden cases of Black people who were still living as slaves a century past the signing of the Emancipation Proclamation. Trivia. . Timothy Smith pointed out that the film gives meaning to the human experience and how most people are yet enslaved on one level or another. She married John William Herrin on 21 June 1904, in Alton, Madison, Illinois, United States. There were other times she would need to take her shoes off. I fully sympathize with the struggle depicted in this movie. Mae was 18. They told me they had worked the fields for most of their lives. They believed that they might somehow get sent back to a plantation that wasnt even operating anymore. I can't believe there were people who got away with slavery until my mothers generation here in America. Antoinette Harrell unearthed the stories of slaves in the south, well over 100 years after Emancipation. The lives of Miller and her family were filled with coercion, threats, exploitation and a complete masquerading of the outside modern world in which they lived. Elements of the film's background are loosely based on the narrative of Mae Louise Walls Miller, who escaped from slavery in 1963. It does not get more dramatic than the story the Miller sisters told about life as slaves in Mississippi. I truly enjoyed this movie. Miller and her family didnt know what was happening around them as they had no TV or access to the outside world something thats also explored throughout Alice. When Mae got a bit older, she would be told to come up to work in the main house with her mother. [15], In 1963, Mae married Wallace Miller and sought to start a family. The Smiths said the areas are isolated, deep inland from main roads and far away from civilization, where plantation owners do what they want. ", Mae Miller said she didn't run away because, "What could you run to?". Harrell recounts that there was a great amount of trepidation on the part of the former slaves to tell their stories because in the Deep South there is great fear of what is colloquially referred to as old money. The families who owned and ran plantations, their original source of political power, still retained political power, moving from the plantations to the local government and big businesses. Yes, slavery still exists in 2010 in Mississippi and Louisiana, says Timothy Arden Smith, who captured the story in a soon to be released documentary called The Cotton Pickin' Truth Still on the Plantation, which will premiere Sept. 23 at the Charles H. Wright Museum of African-American History in Detroit. If you tried to get Continue Reading, Johnny Lee Gaddy-ABC Action News "[12] The Wall family obtained their freedom in 1961, which is sometimes inaccurately given as 1962 or 1963. The Keke Palmer-led film may seem like it follows an intricately crafted and ludicrous plotline but actually, its inspired by very real-life events. I took a lot of garbage there all the time. It was terribly painful, but I needed to know more. I know the movie did not explain how Alice was able to transcend time, or how she was able to get the different characters to cross back and forth from the 1800s to 1973, but wasn't it wonderful to see how powerful black women would be if they had a fighting and equal chance. "You know, they did so much to us.". We want to make people aware about what's going on so we can stop what's going on, Tobias Smith said. The story is based on the very real history of black Americans still being enslaved even after the Emancipation Proclamation. Relatives & Associates. A trailer for the film can be viewed at http://www.theprofitmusic.com. Opening the suppressed memories upset him so much he ended up in the hospital. She had grown up not wearing shoes and said sometimes her feet felt uncomfortable when she wore them. Krystin Ver Linden, Writer/Director needs unlimited budgets from now on! "They treated the dogs a whole lot better than they treated us. Nearly five years after the Waterford meeting, however, Mae Louise Walls Miller of Mississippi told Harrell that she didn't get her freedom until 1963. She didn't get her freedom until 1961, when she ran away from the plantation and found . Anyone else wonder how they explained airplanes to the slaves? The Walls and the Gordons parted ways, and the Walls ended up in Kensington, Louisiana, serving another white family. Its a story of discovery, pride and consciousness as much as it is a thriller about enslavement, race and oppression. I don't know who wrote the screenplay but it was powerful and dynamic. While we cant wait to watch the movie for ourself once its released on 18 March,Alicedoes highlight important true events that, until now, have often been left untold. Court Records. I don't think there are any specifics that the film doesn't advertise in the trailer or descriptions, though I do believe they should have found a better way to market it that would create more intrigue. Antoinette Harrell | All Rights Reserved. We had to go drink water out of the creek. Alice was fine. The Slavery Detective. I'm not sure you can call it good because it either needed more time to develop or less time spent developing. | Copyright, 2019 The Final Call, FCN Publishing, Activists charge environmental poisoning and silent homicide in San Francisco, President spews more incendiary rhetoric as election draws closer, Covid-19 and the divine chastisement of Florida. "I just remember [Cain Sr.] was a jolly type, smiling every time I saw him." The National Guard was deployed in Atlanta, what does this mean as shootings, violence plague other American cities? I ran to a place even worse than where I were. But whatever. That said, this movie was well done and as shocking as the reality of the concept was it made a great revenge story! If we dont investigate and bring to light how slavery quietly continued, it could happen again. We thought everybody was in the same predicament. Others express disbelief and denial because of the perception of racial progress in America, such as having a Black president. The way he looked must have reminded Cain of someone from the farm. [8][14], Historian Antoinette Harrell believes that Miller's father Cain Wall lost his own farmland after he signed a contract that he could not read which indebted him to a local plantation owner. Because actually, we quickly realise that, beyond the trees of the plantation Alice (Keke Palmer) has been kept in, the year is 1973. Do I believe Maes family was the last to be freed? 1. The website Movie Insider unnecessarily credited this movie twice, even though the first could've just changed the release date without making another movie profile. The family kept me away for a while after that. 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