The Black Atlantic (1500 – 1800)
"... Into the breach has stepped Henry Louis Gates Jr., assisted by dozens of historians. His six-part series, 'The African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross,' beginning on Tuesday on PBS, aims to chronicle 500 years of black history. The program starts with Juan Garrido, a free black man whose 1513 expedition with Spanish explorers in Florida made him the first known African to arrive in what is now the United States, and ends with Barack Obama in the White House in 2013, a time of complexity and contradictions for black Americans. In between, Professor Gates, director of the W. E. B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research at Harvard, draws on the latest scholarship to put flesh on characters like the resilient South Carolina slave girl Priscilla as well as her descendants. ..."
NY Times: Black History’s Missing Chapters
W - The African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross
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YouTube: The African Americans
Episode 1: The Black Atlantic (1500-1800), Episode 2: The Age of Slavery (1800 -1860), Episode 3: Into the Fire (1861-1896), Episode 4: Making a way Out of no way (1897-1940), Episode 5: Rise! (1940 - 1968), Episode 6: A More Perfect Union (1968 - 2013)
Priscilla, a Slave
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