Using Django or 12 years a Slave or Nate Parker's Birth of A Nation (2016) or *Harriet (2019) for Compare and Contrast short essay response (Only watch one of the films) and compare one film to D.W. Griffith's Birth of a Nation (1915) and or Within Our Gates (Don't have to use both. Can use either one, where appropriate). You may use the Slave narratives reading to gain context from actual slaves about their experience (optional). (1-2 pages) How is slavery represented in the contemporary version of slavery the same or different from a past representation? For example, is the representation of slavery in Birth of a Nation (2016) similar to the Birth of Nation (1915)?