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THE AFRICAN AMERICANS: MANY RIVERS TO CROSS : The Black Atlantic (1500-1800)
Black History Month Programming
Saturday, November 7, 2020, 8:00-9:00 p.m. ET
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Explore the global experiences that created the African American people.
- Airdate(s): 11/6/2020, 3:00 - 4:00 PM ET
- AARC #: 101
- Original Broadcast: 10/22/2013
Episode Description
“The Black Atlantic” 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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- Donna Williams
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The African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross with Henry Louis Gates, Jr. Featured Interviewees Episode 1
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Henry Louis Gates, Jr. Presents THE AFRICAN AMERICANS: MANY RIVERS TO CROSS, Premiering October 22 at 8 pm on PBS
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The African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross with Henry Louis Gates, Jr. Series At-a-Glance
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The African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross with Henry Louis Gates, Jr. Filmography for Henry Louis Gates Jr.
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