Slavery and the Making of America The Downward Spiral (Slavery and the Making of America, Disc 1)
Type
Audio/Visual
Authors
UPC
739815002830
Category
DVD: Nonfiction
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Publication Year
2005
Publisher
PBS, United States
Volume
1
Duration
60 minutes
Series Name
Abstract
Covering the period from 1619 through 1739, this first volume spotlights the origins of slavery in America. Focusing on Dutch New Amsterdam (later New York City), this chapter illustrates how slavery in its early years was a loosely defined labor source similar to indentured servitude. Africans and others of mixed race and/or mixed ethnicity had some legal rights. The enslaved could take their masters to court and they could even earn wages as they undertook the backbreaking labor involved in building a new nation--clearing land, constructing roads, unloading ships. This first house culminates with the bloody Stono rebellion in South Carolina, which led to the passage of "black codes," regulating virtually every aspect of slaves' lives.
Number of Copies
1
