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Mahoganyanais
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Username: Mahoganyanais
Post Number: 47
Registered: 01-2005
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Votes: 2 (Vote!) | | Posted on Thursday, February 03, 2005 - 07:38 pm: | 
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SLAVERY AND THE MAKING OF AMERICA is a four-part series documenting the history of American slavery from its beginnings in the British colonies to its end in the Southern states and the years of post-Civil War Reconstruction. Drawing on a wealth of recent scholarship, it looks at slavery as an integral part of a developing nation, challenging the long held notion that slavery was exclusively a Southern enterprise. At the same time, by focusing on the remarkable stories of individual slaves, it offers new perspectives on the slave experience and testifies to the active role that Africans and African Americans took in surviving their bondage and shaping their own lives.
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/slavery/about/index.html
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Steve_s
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Username: Steve_s
Post Number: 59
Registered: 04-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Friday, February 04, 2005 - 04:59 pm: |
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Thank you. Also, not sure if it's been posted already, but the exhibit "In Motion: The African-American Migration Experience" opened at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture and I believe I read that the entire contents -- essays, illustrations, maps, etc. -- are posted on their Web site. It looks like there's a lot to read there. Here's a link to the Schomburg Center site:
http://www.nypl.org/research/sc/sc.html
And here's the NY Times review which also contains a link to the site:
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/02/02/arts/design/02migr.html?8br |
Mahoganyanais
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Username: Mahoganyanais
Post Number: 52
Registered: 01-2005
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Saturday, February 05, 2005 - 06:41 pm: |
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Thanks for the link, Steve. Times like this I miss living in NYC. |
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