08-22-2007, 07:02 PM
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| Congressional Representative Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Alabama Gender:  Posts: 2,729 Points: 15,737, Level: 80 | Level up: 78%, 113 Points needed |  |  Quote:
Originally Posted by fxashun  Tell me about it.... |
We watched an interesting documentary on slavery's role in American history on PBS last spring. If it comes back around, you might want to watch it. A lot of stuff I knew already; a lot I didn't. Quote: |
.....an unparalleled look at slavery and the remarkable stories of individual slaves in “Slavery and the Making of America,” airing on PBS Feb. 9 and 16 at 9 p.m. EST.
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From the early 17th century when English settlers in Virginia purchased Africans from Dutch traders, and through the next two centuries with the Civil War and Reconstruction, the documentary explores slavery as more than just an institution of evil and persecution.
Rather, the film shows how slavery became the central economic base for the entire country’s development — a base that was dependent on the labor and know-how of generations of black Americans.
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