The African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross

Classroom | St. Domingue

The slave revolt in St. Domingue (now Haiti) led to the world’s first black republic. This video is an excerpt from Episode One, The Black Atlantic, from the series The African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross with Henry Louis Gates, Jr.

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