Culture

The African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross

This series chronicles the full sweep of African American history, from the origins of slavery on the African continent right up to today when America remains a nation deeply divided by race.

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30s

From Black Power to a black president, a look at African American lives after the landmark court case victories.

Extras + Features

  • Priscilla, a Slave: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    Priscilla, a Slave

    S1 E1 - 1m 50s

    Priscilla was purchased at a slave auction in South Carolina by a rice planter, Elias Ball. She arrived on the Ball's rice plantation in 1756. In her time, South Carolina had more black slaves than it did white citizens. Henry Louis Gates, Jr. meets Edward Ball, the fifth great grandson of Elias, and tours the old plantation, discussing Priscilla and early slavery in the United States.

  • America's Earliest Africans: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    America's Earliest Africans

    S1 E1 - 1m 19s

    Professor Henry Louis Gates, Jr. discusses two of the earliest Africans to arrive in North America---free men who journeyed to this continent a century before the first Africans who arrived in Jamestown, Virginia, in 1619. Both were explorers who found hope and opportunity in this new land. But things changed quickly for those who followed them.

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