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The Black Atlantic (1500-1800)

The first Africans in America and the beginning of plantation slavery in the South.

Aired 10/22/2013 | Rating NR

The African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross

The Black Atlantic (1500-1800)

Preview: Episode 1 | 30s

The first Africans in America and the beginning of plantation slavery in the South.

The Black Atlantic explores the earliest Africans, both slave and free, who arrived in the New World. Through stories of individuals caught in the transatlantic slave trade, we trace the emergence of plantation slavery in the American South. The episode also looks at what that Era of Revolutions — American, French and Haitian — would mean for African Americans and for slavery in America.

Aired 10/22/2013 | Rating NR

America's Earliest Africans

Henry Louis Gates, Jr. discusses two of the earliest Africans to arrive in North America. (1m 19s)

Priscilla, a Slave

Henry Louis Gates, Jr. learns about Priscilla, a slave on a South Carolina plantation. (1m 50s)

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