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'The Negro Farmer: Extension Work for Better Farming and Better Living' is a 1938 educational film made by the United States Department of Agriculture with assistance from the Tuskegee Institute. It features music, entitled "Negro Melodies", from the Tuskegee Institute Choir directed by African American composer William L. Dawson (composer). Through commentary from a white male narrator using racial innuendo inferring African American inferiority in farming practices, the film is a condescending, "paternalistic portrait of black rural life", intended to "halt a mass migration to the urban north by black people".Durkin, Hannah (2019). "Finding last middle passage survivor Sally 'Redoshi' Smith on the page and screen". Slavery & Abolition. 40 (4): 631658. doi:10.1080/0144039X.2019.1596397. S2CID 150975893

With a 23 minute runtime, the film features Redoshi (c. 1848 1937) (renamed Sally Smith by her enslaver, Washington Smith), a West African woman taken to Dallas County, Alabama in 1860. Redoshi is considered one of the two last surviving victims of the transatlantic slave trade.Coughlan, Sean (2020-03-25). "Last survivor of transatlantic slave trade discovered". BBC News. Retrieved 2020-03-25.Daley, Jason (April 5, 2019). "Researcher Identifies the Last Living Survivor of the Transatlantic Slave Trade". Smithsonian. Retrieved April 8, 2019.

The film is held by the Library of Congress.Durkin, Hannah (2019). "Finding last middle passage survivor Sally 'Redoshi' Smith on the page and screen". Slavery & Abolition. 40 (4): 631658. doi:10.1080/0144039X.2019.1596397. S2CID 150975893 It was part of a U.S. governmental effort to promote agricultural improvements guided by the USDA's guidance, emphasizing that "blacks should stay on Southern farms".Winn, J. Emmett (2012). Documenting Racism: African Americans in US Department of Agriculture Documentaries, 1921-42. Bloomsbury. ISBN 9781441172938.

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* Raymond Evans (director) - Director, Producer. Directed Poor Mrs. Jones! (1926) and Hemp for Victory (1943) IMDb. "Raymond Evans." https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1378746/?ref_=tt_ov_dr

* George G Farrington - Narrator

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Category:Documentary films about African Americans

Category:1938 short films

Category:American documentary films

Category:1938 films

Category:1930s American films

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