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245 00 Africans in America|h[videorecording] :|bAmerica's journey
through slavery /|cproduced for PBS by WGBH Boston ;
produced and directed by Orlando Bagwell, Susan Bellows ;
writer, Steve Fayer.
246 30 America's journey through slavery
260 Boston, MA :|bWGBH Educational Foundation ;|a[Alexandria,
VA] :|bDistributed by PBS Video,|cc2000.
300 2 DVD (ca 360 min.) :|bsd., col. with b&w sequences ;|c4
3/4 in.
490 1 Africans in America.
490 1 History's best on PBS
500 Originally broadcast on PBS on October 19, 1998.
500 Related to: Africans in America : America's journey
through slavery / Charles Johnson, Patricia Smith, WGBH
Series Research Team. -- New York : Harcourt Brace, c1998.
505 00 |tTerrible transformation [Disc 1] --|tRevolution [Disc 1]
--|tBrotherly love [Disc 2] --|tJudgment day [Disc 2].
508 Director of photography, Michael Chin; editor, Chuck
Scott; music score, Bernice Johnson Reagon; associate
producer, Patricia Garcia Rios.
511 0 Narrator: Angela Bassett.
520 A four part series portraying the struggles of the African
people in America, from their arrival in the 1600s to the
last days before the Civil War. The first episode,
Terrible transformation, examines the origins of one of
the largest forced human migrations in recorded history.
After the arrival of the first Africans in Virginia in
1619, the British colonies laid the groundwork for a
system of racial slavery which generated profits that
ensured the colonies' growth and survival. In the second
episode, Revolution, while the American colonies challenge
Britain for independence, American slavery is challenged
from within as men and women fight to define what America
will be. When the War of Independence is won, black people,
both enslaved and free, seize on the language of freedom
even while the new nation's Constitution codifies slavery
and oppression as a national way of life. In the third
episode, Brotherly love, during the first 50 years of the
new nation, freedmen and fugitive slaves in Philadelphia
push the country to live up to the promises made in its
Constitution. But with the invention of the cotton gin,
slavery expands into America's western frontier, and a
revolution in Haiti inspires slave rebellions throughout
the souther United States. In the fourth and final episode,
as the nation expands westward slavery becomes the most
divisive issue in American life. Abolitionists struggle to
bring the institution down and the nation is tested as
never before. When tensions over slavery erupt into
violence, Americans are forced to consider how long the
country can continue as a democracy built on the profits
of bondage.
538 DVD.
546 Closed-captioned for the hearing impaired.
650 0 Slavery|zUnited States|xHistory.
650 0 Slavery|zUnited States|xHistory|y17th century.
650 0 Slavery|xEconomic aspects|zUnited States|xHistory|y17th
century.
650 0 Slavery|zVirginia|xHistory.
650 0 Slavery|xEconomic aspects|zVirginia|xHistory.
650 0 African Americans|xHistory|yTo 1863.
650 0 Slavery|xJustification.
651 0 United States|xHistory|yColonial period, ca. 1600-1775.
651 0 Virginia|xHistory|yColonial period, ca. 1600-1775.
655 7 Video recordings for the hearing impaired.|2lcgft
655 7 DVD-Video discs.|2lcgft
700 1 Bagwell, Orlando.
700 1 Bellows, Susan.
700 1 Fayer, Steve,|d1935-
700 1 Bassett, Angela.
700 1 Reagon, Bernice Johnson,|d1942-
700 1 Johnson, Charles,|d1948-|tAfricans in America.
710 2 WGBH (Television station : Boston, Mass.)
710 2 WGBH Educational Foundation.
710 2 PBS Video.
730 0 Africans in America (Television program)
830 0 Africans in America (Television program)
830 0 History's best on PBS.
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