Oliver St. Clair Franklin on The Exchange with Laura Trevelyan

The conversation is now up on Noosphere, the platform for independent journalists.

Filmed at Carpenters' Hall in Philadelphia, where the First Continental Congress once met, Oliver and Laura Trevelyan trace the story behind Becoming American: the founding of the country seen through the lens of its first capital, the contradiction inside the words "all men are created equal," and the enslaved and free Africans whose lives shaped both the city and the nation. Oliver also opens up about his own family history and why he wanted to make this film now, on the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence.

25 min | The Exchange with Laura Trevelyan

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