African in America : AMERICA'S JOURNEY THROUGH SLAVERY /

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Publisher: Boston, MA : WGBH Educational Foundation , [2006]Publisher: ©2006Edition: Collector's EditionDescription: 2 videodiscs (approximately 360 min.) : sound, color with black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 inContent type:

text

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

Other title:

America's journey through slavery [Other title]
Africans in America (Television program) [Other title]

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DDC classification:

23 973.0496

Contents:

Disc one. The Terrible transformation [(1450-1750)] / produced and directed by Orlando Bagwell, Susan Bellows ; Revolution [(1750-1805)] / produced and directed by W. Noland Walker --

Disc two. Brotherly love [(1791-1831)] / produced and directed by Jacquie Jones ; Judgment day [(1831-1865)] / produced and directed by Llewellyn Smith.

Production credits:

Executive producer, Orlando Bagwell ; Project director : Llewellyn Smith ; Senior producer : Susan Bellows ; Writer : Steve Fayer ; Performer : Narrator, Angela Bassett

Awards:

"Peabody Award winner."

Narrator, Angela Bassett.Summary: 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 southern 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.

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Holdings
Item type	Current library	Shelving location	Call number	Copy number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Digital Video Disc	Perpustakaan Alor Setar	American Corner	LCK 973.0496 AFR (Browse shelf(Opens below))	H010639	Available		A00810639
Digital Video Disc	Perpustakaan Alor Setar	American Corner	LCK 973.0496 AFR (Browse shelf(Opens below))	H010639	Available		A00810637

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Disc one. The Terrible transformation [(1450-1750)] / produced and directed by Orlando Bagwell, Susan Bellows ; Revolution [(1750-1805)] / produced and directed by W. Noland Walker --

Disc two. Brotherly love [(1791-1831)] / produced and directed by Jacquie Jones ; Judgment day [(1831-1865)] / produced and directed by Llewellyn Smith.

Executive producer, Orlando Bagwell ; Project director : Llewellyn Smith ; Senior producer : Susan Bellows ; Writer : Steve Fayer ; Performer : Narrator, Angela Bassett

Narrator, Angela Bassett.

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 southern 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.