The
African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross
Tuesdays
8pm Oct 22 through Nov 26 on TV-PBS
Episode
1: The Black Atlantic
http://video.pbs.org/video/2365075095 (30
seconds)
http://video.pbs.org/video/2365103337 (53
minutes)
Episode
2: The Age of Slavery
Episode
3: The Cotton Economy
www.pbs.org/wnet/african-americans-many-rivers-to-cross/video/the-cotton-economy-and-slavery
(3 minutes)
http://video.pbs.org/video/2365108196 (3
minutes)
Episode
4: Making a way out of no way (1897-1940)
Episode
5: Rise! The Road to Civil Rights
The
Black Atlantic explores the global experiences that created the African-American
people. Beginning a century before the first documented "20-and-odd" slaves came
to 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.
The
Age of Slavery illustrates how black lives changed dramatically in the aftermath
of the American Revolution. For free black people, these years were a time of
opportunity, but for most African Americans, the era represented a new nadir.
Yet as slavery intensified, so did resistance.
Many
stakeholders benefited from the cotton economy that fueled slavery's expansion.
It increased the number of slaves in America and led to cotton plantations
spreading across the Deep South to Texas. As African Americans were uprooted
from the Upper South to the Deep South, this created the second largest forced
migration in America's history.
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also
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