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America's Earliest Africans

Professor Henry Louis Gates, Jr. discusses two of the earliest Africans to arrive in North America---free men who journeyed to this continent a century before the first Africans who arrived in Jamestown, Virginia, in 1619. Both were explorers who found hope and opportunity in this new land. But things changed quickly for those who followed them.

Clip Season 1 Episode 1 Length 01:19 Premiere: 10/22/13

The African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross

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The Black Atlantic (1500-1800)

Preview Length 00:30 Premiere Date 10/22/13

Priscilla, a Slave

Clip Length 01:50 Premiere Date 10/22/13

America's Earliest Africans

Clip Length 01:19 Premiere Date 10/22/13

Extended Trailer

Preview Length 02:29 Premiere Date 10/21/13

Official Preview

Preview Length 00:30 Premiere Date 10/21/13

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Length 03:28 Premiere Date 11/19/13

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Length 03:28 Premiere Date 11/19/13

Classroom | Rosa Parks

Length 04:01 Premiere Date 11/19/13

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Length 06:30 Premiere Date 11/12/13

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Length 06:07 Premiere Date 11/12/13

Classroom | The Subjugation of African Americans

Length 03:19 Premiere Date 11/12/13

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Length 04:33 Premiere Date 11/12/13

Classroom | The Great Migration

Length 01:44 Premiere Date 11/12/13

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Length 03:46 Premiere Date 11/05/13

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Length 03:58 Premiere Date 10/29/13

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Length 02:59 Premiere Date 10/29/13

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Premiere Date 10/29/13

Classroom | Fugitive Slave Act

Premiere Date 10/29/13

Classroom | Creative Resistance

Length 01:10 Premiere Date 10/22/13

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Length 03:44 Premiere Date 10/22/13

Classroom | Hutchinson's Rebellion

Length 04:01 Premiere Date 10/22/13

Classroom | St. Domingue

Length 02:27 Premiere Date 10/22/13

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Length 02:09 Premiere Date 10/22/13

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