Africans in America: America's Journey Through Slavery
by Noland Walker, Jacquie Jones, Susan Bell
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Actor: Andre Braugher, Angela Bassett, Eric Foner, Jeremy Rabb, Kemp HarrisDirector: Jacquie Jones, Noland Walker, Susan Bell
Brand: WGBH BOSTON VIDEO
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown), Dolby Digital 2.0; English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0
Format: Box set, Closed-captioned, Color, DVD, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 360 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2000-08-01
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: WGBH Boston
DVD Reviews of Africans in America: America's Journey Through Slavery
DVD Review: Very Thorough, Absorbing History of Africans In America
Summary: 5 Stars
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.DVD Review: More About The Reverne Nat Turner Is Approiate
Summary: 4 Stars
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. SheppardDVD Review: Indepth series, great for an African American History Course
Summary: 5 Stars
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.DVD Review: MUSIC IS IMPORTANT TO THIS JOURNEY
Summary: 5 Stars
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.DVD Review: Great educational tool.
Summary: 4 Stars
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.
Description of Africans in America: America's Journey Through Slavery
Africans in America is now available on DVD! 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."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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