SAISON: 1
EPISODE: 1 - The Black Atlantic (1500-1800)
SYNOPSIS
The earliest Africans, both slave and free; the emergence of plantation slavery in the American South; freedom movements abound in the late 18th-century.
- Henry Louis Gates Jr.Self - Professor of History, Harvard University
- Vincent BrownSelf - historian
- Bernard E. Powers Jr.Self - historian
- Peniel E. JosephSelf - historian
- David Levering LewisSelf - historian
- Vernon E. Jordan Jr.Self - lawyer and civil rights activist
- Thavolia GlymphSelf - Historian
- Kathleen CleaverSelf