Slavery and The Making of America

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Spanning the 1740s through the 1830s, the second hour explores the continued expansion of slavery in the colonies, the evolution of a distinct African-American culture and the roots of the emancipation movement. The episode reveals the many ways the enslaved resisted their oppression, their role on both sides of the Revolutionary War, and the strength and inspiration many of them found in the Declaration of Independence and Constitution, despite the inherent contradictions that lay in what the documents expressed and what the country practiced. Further emphasizing these inherent contradictions is the profile of the relationship between Thomas Jefferson — the man who wrote so eloquently about liberty — and his life-long servant Jupiter, one of 90 slaves on the Jefferson family plantation. Also featured is the story of Titus. Enslaved in central New Jersey, he fled his cruel master at the onset of the American Revolution and later returned to the area as 'Colonel Tye,' the leader of a band of black and white guerillas fighting for the British. In fact, far more black people fought for the British than for the colonists, believing they would be freed if the British proved victorious in the Revolution. The second hour introduces Mum Bett, whose successful lawsuit against her owner helped pave the way for the 1783 abolition of slavery in Massachusetts, and David Walker, whose landmark missive An Appeal to the Colored Citizens of the World marked the first expression of black nationalism and terrified slave owners by urging black people to empower themselves.

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Source: http://www.pbs.org/wnet/slavery/


It will be on PBS at 9pm (pacific zone) tonight. There will be several more.. check the schedule. Today will be my first time to watch the TV (beside movies & animes [DVDs], that is) ever since Nov 3. Weeee. Oops, time for class! Gotta go!
 
Looks interesting.

Some of the series was filmed here in Charleston. I have toured those former plantations. Slave history education is strongly promoted here. Civil War re-enacting is very popular.
 
Yea, i plan to watch tonight about that. Sound good movie with 4 hours history. Wow long one!
Mommyof3
 
Reba, that's cool. I found out about that program thru New York Times so I checked out.
 
I did watched tonight at 8 pm (PT). It was so good history and interesting! I enjoyed to watched this show with DF. But DF watch 2 TVs which American Idol and Salvery same time. Funny! :)
I learned so much about Salvery that i never knew from Wi School of the deaf. The teacher was limited teach us about Salvery. But good thing, I learned so much from Salvery and DF.
Mommyof3
 
Mommyof3 said:
I did watched tonight at 8 pm (PT). It was so good history and interesting! I enjoyed to watched this show with DF. But DF watch 2 TVs which American Idol and Salvery same time. Funny! :)
I learned so much about Salvery that i never knew from Wi School of the deaf. The teacher was limited teach us about Salvery. But good thing, I learned so much from Salvery and DF.
Mommyof3
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That's cool. I missed some :( because of 'emergency' came up.
 
Magatsu
Friday, February 11, 1:30am
Debut: Four-hour history of slavery in the U.S.
Wednesday, February 16, 8:00pm, Thursday, February 17, 3:00pm,Friday, February 18, 1:30am
The period from 1813 to the end of Reconstruction
That is from KVIE channel 6.
I see that one of show will be rerun again. :)
mommyof3
 
It sounds like "Roots". It's really very very very good and true movie.

It begin was in Africa. American shipped Africans to America and made them slave and also sell them to rich people, too until Revolutionary War comes....... It's really long movie... good one.

Have you heard about Root or Roots movie? I last saw them at 25 years ago in England until I found DVD few weeks ago and order them right now. I'm waiting to get it.
 
I saw it. If blacks loved being in africa so much why didnt they just run from the white man and fight top keep em off their land? They had more freedom in africa than they did in america.Look at the arabs today.They refuse to allow you take their homeland and theyre fight till death if they have too. If i was an african id run from the white man and keep on running or go to nearest tribe and tell our men theyre comming!! Do not let them take you fight till death if you have too.Its for our own sake. But these people wont fight theyre let you take em and turn you into slaves. They should have fight.
 
I taped all the episodes so I could watch them without missing anything. It was very interesting. I was particulary interested in the local Charleston history.

(A little off-topic; it was kind of funny to see them use a modern harbor tour boat for the Confederate boat "Planter" in the Robert Smalls story.)
 
ravensteve1961 said:
I saw it. If blacks loved being in africa so much why didnt they just run from the white man and fight top keep em off their land? They had more freedom in africa than they did in america.Look at the arabs today.They refuse to allow you take their homeland and theyre fight till death if they have too. If i was an african id run from the white man and keep on running or go to nearest tribe and tell our men theyre comming!! Do not let them take you fight till death if you have too.Its for our own sake. But these people wont fight theyre let you take em and turn you into slaves. They should have fight.
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Study the history a bit. Some did fight and die. Most were captives in tribal wars, some sold by their own families too. Some were netted by hunting parties. Most were very young. Old slaves were not worth much to the traders who were mostly Europeans, not Americans. Watch the movie Squanto some time. American Natives were taken overseas as slaves occasionally. A lot of Irish came here as slaves. England "pressed" their own citizens for the navy, some boys as young as ten. Press gangs just grabbed them from the streets of the city and put them on ships for a few pence from the captain. Slavery continues today in many countries by the way.
 
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