The Black Atlantic : 1500-1800 /
This program explores the global experiences that created the African-American people. Beginning a century before the first documented "20-and-odd" slaves who arrived at Jamestown, Virginia, the episode portrays the earliest Africans, slave and free, who arrived on these shores. The transa...
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| Format: | Video |
| Language: | English |
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[Pleasantville, New York] :
Kunhardt McGee Productions,
2013.
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| Online Access: | Connect to this streaming video (Alexander Street) |
| Summary: | This program explores the global experiences that created the African-American people. Beginning a century before the first documented "20-and-odd" slaves who arrived at Jamestown, Virginia, the episode portrays the earliest Africans, slave and free, who arrived on these shores. The transatlantic slave trade soon became a vast empire connecting three continents. Through stories of individuals caught in its web, the episode traces the emergence of plantation slavery in the American South and examines what the late 18th-century era of revolutions-American, French and Haitian-would mean for African Americans and slavery in America? |
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| Item Description: | Originally produced as Episode One in the television series, The African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross in 2013. Includes interactive transcript; closed captioning has optional automatic translation in multiple languages. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (1 video file (56 min., 15 sec.)) : sound, color. |
| Audience: | 9 & up. Rating: TV-PG. |
| Production Credits: | Editor, Nancy Novack ; writer, Henry Louis Gates, Jr. ; original score, Paul Brill ; director of photography, Graham Smith ; |