Slavery and the Making of America - Episode 3

[keep_it_real]

http://video.yahoo.com/watch/2123487/6700864

[Number23]

1. Ummm... just to provide a bit of context since the OP decided not to

(probably realized that no one here would give a damn)

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/

[keep_it_real]

2. Excellent synopsis

Depictions like this are very hard and difficult for me to experience as a human who can empathize with the suffering of others, I have to take stories like this a little at a time.

So for me to put in words what the post is about, no way.

Thanks for the synopsis.

[Number23]

3. I didn't write it! PBS, the people who made the documentary, wrote it

:)

But I understand how you feel. It wasn't until the fourth time that I was able to finish the Autobiography of Frederick Douglass without sobbing my way through it.

This seems like a very important and interesting documentary. Thanks for posting about it.

[niyad]

5. thank you for that--will look for it on my local station.

[janedum]

4. THANK YOU!! Excellent Video!!