Goodbye Uncle Tom

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Goodbye Uncle Tom (Italian: Addio Zio Tom) is a 1971 Italian mondo docudrama film co-directed and co-written by Gualtiero Jacopetti and Franco Prosperi with music by Riz Ortolani. Based on true events, the filmmakers explores the United States during the Antebellum South, using period documents to examine in graphic detail how racism became used as a justification for keeping African Americans enslaved in the 19th century after the enslaved Africans converted to Christianity in the 17th and 18th centuries, in order to protect the plantation economy in the Southern United States. Due to the use of published documents and materials from the public record, it is labeled a documentary, though nearly all footage is restaged using actors.

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