Research Catalog

Details

Additional authors

1. Fayer, Steve, 1935-
2. Bassett, Angela
3. Reagon, Bernice Johnson, 1942-
4. Johnson, Charles (Charles Richard), 1948-
5. WGBH (Television station : Boston, Mass.)
6. WGBH Educational Foundation
7. PBS Video

Description

1. 1 videocassette (ca. 90 min.) : sd., col. with b&w sequences; 1/2 in.

Summary

1. 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. In this second episode, 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.

Series statement

1. Africans in America ; 2
2. History's best on PBS

Uniform title

1. Africans in America ; 2.
2. History's best on PBS.

Alternative title

1. Africans in America : America's journey through slavery. Part 2, Revolution
2. America's journey through slavery. Part 2, Revolution

Subject

1. Slavery > United States > History
2. Slavery > United States > History > 18th century
3. Antislavery movements > United States > History > 18th century
4. Enslaved persons > Emancipation > History > United States > 18th century
5. Abolitionists > United States > History > 18th century
6. African Americans > History > To 1863
7. Slavery > Justification
8. Constitutional history > United States
9. Constitutional law > United States > Philosophy
10. United States > History > African Americans. > Revolution, 1775-1783

Genre/Form

1. Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
2. Historical television programs.
3. Documentary television programs.

Call number

1. Sc Visual VRA-1005, pt. 2

Note

1. Originally broadcast on PBS on October 20, 1998.
2. Related to: Africans in America : America's journey through slavery / Charles Johnson, Patricia Smith, WGBH Series Research Team.

Credits (note)

1. Director of photography, Michael Chin; editor, Charles Scott; music score, Bernice Johnson Reagon; associate producer, Patricia Garcia Rios.

System details (note)

1. VHS.

Language (note)

1. Closed-captioned for the hearing impaired.

Title

1. Revolution / produced for PBS by WGBH Boston ; produced and directed by W. Noland Walker ; writer, Steve Fayer.

Imprint

1. Boston, MA : WGBH Educational Foundation ; [Alexandria, VA] : Distributed by PBS Video, c1998.

Series

1. Africans in America ; 2
2. History's best on PBS
3. Africans in America ; 2.
4. History's best on PBS.

System details

1. VHS.

Performer

1. Narrator: Angela Bassett.

Credits

1. Director of photography, Michael Chin; editor, Charles Scott; music score, Bernice Johnson Reagon; associate producer, Patricia Garcia Rios.

Language

1. Closed-captioned for the hearing impaired.

Connect to:

1. Request Access to Schomburg Moving Images and Recorded Sound

Added author

1. Fayer, Steve, 1935-
2. Bassett, Angela.
3. Reagon, Bernice Johnson, 1942-
4. Johnson, Charles (Charles Richard), 1948- Africans in America.
5. WGBH (Television station : Boston, Mass.)
6. WGBH Educational Foundation.
7. PBS Video.

Publisher no.

1. AFRA-102 PBS Video
2. WG542 WGBH

ISBN

1. 1578071461 (tape 2)
2. 9781578071463 (tape 2)

Research call number

1. Sc Visual VRA-1005, pt. 2