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Africans in America [videorecording] : America's journey through slavery. Part 1-2 / a production of WGBH Boston ; executive producer, Orlando Bagwell; writer, Steve Fayer.

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Material type: Film

FilmPublication details: South Burlington, Vt. : WGBH Boston Video, c2000.Description: 1 videodisc (ca. 180 min.) : sd., col. with b&w sequences ; 4 3/4 inISBN:

157807553X

Other title:

America's journey through slavery. Part 1-2

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LOC classification:

E185

Contents:

Pt. 1. Terrible transformation (90 min.) -- Pt. 2. Revolution (90 min.)

Production credits:

Director of photography, Michael Chin; editor, Chuck Scott; music score, Bernice Johnson Reagon; associate producer, Patricia Garcia Rios.

Narrator: Angela Bassett.Summary: A four part series portraying the struggles of the African people in America, from the 1600s to the last days before the Civil War. Part 1: 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. Part 2: While the American colonies challenged Britain for independence, American slavery was challenged from within as men and women fought to define what America would be. When the War of Independence was won, black people, both enslaved and free, seized on the language of freedom even as the new nation's Constitution codified slavery as a national way of life.

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Item type	Current library	Call number	Status	Barcode
Audio Visual materials	Africa University Main Library	E185 JON 2000 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available	0000081441013

Originally broadcast on PBS in 1998.

Related to: Africans in America : America's journey through slavery / Charles Johnson, Patricia Smith, WGBH Series Research Team. -- New York : Harcourt Brace, c1998.

Special features: Chapter search ; 2 songs from the Africans in America soundtrack.

Pt. 1. Terrible transformation (90 min.) -- Pt. 2. Revolution (90 min.)

Director of photography, Michael Chin; editor, Chuck Scott; music score, Bernice Johnson Reagon; associate producer, Patricia Garcia Rios.

Narrator: Angela Bassett.

A four part series portraying the struggles of the African people in America, from the 1600s to the last days before the Civil War. Part 1: 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. Part 2: While the American colonies challenged Britain for independence, American slavery was challenged from within as men and women fought to define what America would be. When the War of Independence was won, black people, both enslaved and free, seized on the language of freedom even as the new nation's Constitution codified slavery as a national way of life.

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