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Africans in America (4pc) [VHS] 
Actors : Angela Bassett
Studio : Wgbh Boston
by Wgbh Boston
Release Date : 2000-03-28
Publisher : Wgbh Boston
Availability : Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Number of Items : 4
EAN : 9781578071432
UPC : 783421282032
Avg. Customer Rating: (based on 16 reviews)
List Price : $49.95
Our Price : $17.55
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A vital, valuable documentary. - People The documentary equivalent of Roots. - Orlando Sentinel Everything you thought you knew about slavery is about to be challenged. Africans in America: America's Journey Through Slavery is the groundbreaking series that makes history by sharing it from a new perspective. Nearly ten years in the making, this landmark six-hour set exposes the truth through surprising revelations, dramatic recreations, rare archival photography and riveting first-person accounts. Africans in America helps define the reality of slavery's past through the insightful commentary of a wide range of voices, including General Colin Powell and leading scholars, and offers unparalleled understanding--from slavery's birth in the early 1600s through the violent onset of civil war in 1860. Narrated by Angela Bassett; includes the voices of William Hurt and Andre Braugher. Winner 1998 Peabody Award. |
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Cooltechelectronics.com |
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"Everything you thought you knew about slavery is about to be challenged." So says WGBH about its six-hour series Africans in America, and they are absolutely right. Interviews with historians and luminaries such as General Colin Powell, dramatic re-creations of important events, and beautiful photography create a vivid and compelling story of over 400 years of tragedy. Ten million Africans died on the journey to America alone; they and the countless numbers whose lives were wasted in servitude find a voice in Angela Bassett's outstanding narration. At once scholarly and moving, Africans in America should be required viewing for anyone interested in the American condition. --Rob Lightner |
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Very Thorough, Absorbing History of Africans In America |
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Wonderful absorbing documentary about how Africans began coming into America and were turned into slaves. The history stops at the Civil War but provides a complete overview of the time period before the end of slavery. Africans who initially came were pressed into indentured servitude but after word got out in Europe and England how badly indentured servants were treated (few barely lived to freedom in 7 years) and tobacco was discovered to grow well in Virginia soil, planters sought to procure slaves to do work which others would not do. I am teaching American History in school and found this to be a very good documentary and included information I didn't even know about. Hard to reconcile the idea of freedom and slavery in the same country but the truth is the truth and it is not pretty. |
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More About The Reverne Nat Turner Is Approiate |
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Fairness Journalism Especially (PBS) along with all the other networks who claim Obective Journalism To Produce and Expose Greater Information About Blacks Whom Fought and Fight as True Rebells Of The Bigotry Within This Country (The United States) and Around The World. The Reverne Nat Turner Is One I Would Like To Know More About/ Embelish Here As So Often Done In So Many Other Aspects of The Networks Producing Various Products For Viewer/Consumer Consumtion(s). Thanks For This Little Bit; Though Much More Is Needed. Alfred R. Sheppard |
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Indepth series, great for an African American History Course |
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This series is so indepth that you may not be able to show the entire series during a regular survey course of US History. I have created video viewing guides that are available in the teacherspayteachers website for the first three segments. |
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MUSIC IS IMPORTANT TO THIS JOURNEY |
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Africans in America This is a wonderful series, which I like most for its tie-in with the series of music composed and compiled by Bernice Johnson Reagon and Toshi Reagon in connection with the production. I have the cds and play them all the time for the mixture of African American folkloric music mixed with the special contribution both Bernice J Reagon and her daughter Toshi Reagon are making to African American music and the light they continue to shed on the importance of African American music to American culture. Apparently, so much of our music was protest music and part of an ongoing statement of humanity despite our conditions as slaves and for many years post slavery. So I just love the it. |
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Great educational tool. |
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This is a great piece of history. Didn't receive 5 stars because I think the history should have continued and not ended at the point it did. |
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