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The Black Atlantic (1500-1800) (Season 1, Episode 1)
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TV Episode | 54 min | Documentary
From PBS: "The Black Atlantic" explores the global experiences that created the African-American people. Beginning a century before the first documented "20-and-odd" slaves who arrived at Jamestown, Virginia, the episode portrays the ...See moreFrom PBS: "The Black Atlantic" explores the global experiences that created the African-American people. Beginning a century before the first documented "20-and-odd" slaves who arrived at Jamestown, Virginia, the episode portrays the earliest Africans, slave and free, who arrived on these shores. The transatlantic slave trade soon became a vast empire connecting three continents. Through stories of individuals caught in its web, the episode traces the emergence of plantation slavery in the American South and examines what the late 18th-century era of revolutions - American, French and Haitian - would mean for African Americans and slavery in America. See less
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Director
Sabin Streeter
Writer
Henry Louis Gates Jr. (as Henry Louis Gates)
Producer
Sabin Streeter
Composer
Paul Brill
Cinematographer
Graham Smith
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Updated Oct 22, 2013
Release date
Oct 22, 2013 (United States)
Awards
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5 wins

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