African in America :  AMERICA'S JOURNEY THROUGH SLAVERY / 
 America's journey through slavery   Africans in America (Television program) 

 - Collector's Edition 
 - 2 videodiscs (approximately 360 min.) :   sound, color with black and white sequences ;  4 3/4 in. 
<br/><br/> DVD 0639/06 
<br/><br/>Disc one. The Terrible transformation [(1450-1750)] / produced and directed by Orlando Bagwell, Susan Bellows ; Revolution [(1750-1805)] / produced and directed by W. Noland Walker --<br/> Disc two. Brotherly love [(1791-1831)] / produced and directed by Jacquie Jones ; Judgment day [(1831-1865)] / produced and directed by Llewellyn Smith. 
<br/><br/>Executive producer, Orlando Bagwell ; Project director : Llewellyn Smith ; Senior producer : Susan Bellows ; Writer : Steve Fayer ; Performer : Narrator, Angela Bassett  Executive producer, Orlando Bagwell ; Project director : Llewellyn Smith ; Senior producer : Susan Bellows ; Writer : Steve Fayer ; Performer : Narrator, Angela Bassett 
<br/><br/>Narrator, Angela Bassett. 
<br/><br/> A four-part series portraying the struggles of the African people in America, from their arrival in the 1600s to the last days before the Civil War. The first episode, Terrible transformation, examines the origins of one of the largest forced human migrations in recorded history. After the arrival of the first Africans in Virginia in 1619, the British colonies laid the groundwork for a system of racial slavery which generated profits that ensured the colonies' growth and survival. In the second episode, Revolution, while the American colonies challenge Britain for independence, American slavery is challenged from within as men and women fight to define what America will be. When the War of Independence is won, black people, both enslaved and free, seize on the language of freedom even while the new nation's Constitution codifies slavery and oppression as a national way of life. In the third episode, Brotherly love, during the first 50 years of the new nation, freedmen and fugitive slaves in Philadelphia push the country to live up to the promises made in its Constitution. But with the invention of the cotton gin, slavery expands into America's western frontier, and a revolution in Haiti inspires slave rebellions throughout the southern United States. In the fourth and final episode, as the nation expands westward slavery becomes the most divisive issue in American life. Abolitionists struggle to bring the institution down and the nation is tested as never before. When tensions over slavery erupt into violence, Americans are forced to consider how long the country can continue as a democracy built on the profits of bondage.   
<br/><br/> Not rated. 
<br/><br/><br/>DVD, NTSC; Dolby Digital ; all regions ; 4 x 3 full screen. 
<br/><br/> 	"Peabody Award winner." 
<br/><br/><label>Standard No.: </label>783421323094 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Slavery --United States --History.<br/>Slavery--United States --17th century.--History <br/>Slavery--History--United States--17th century.--Economic aspects
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>973.0496