Videos

In February 2019, Villanova University’s Department of Theatre and Department of History collaborated on a dramatic reading of ads from the Last Seen database. The performance, Last Seen: Voices from Slavery’s Lost Families, brought together over eighty volunteers from the Philadelphia region who selected ads and participated in the choreographed production.

Here we offer individual video clips of actors reading these ads that teachers can use in their classrooms to accompany lessons. In this way, students can experience the ads as they were intended—read aloud in churches and schools.