The African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross
America's Earliest Africans
Clip: Episode 1 | 1m 19s
Henry Louis Gates, Jr. discusses two of the earliest Africans to arrive in North America.
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.
The African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross
America's Earliest Africans
Clip: Episode 1 | 1m 19s
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.
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