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African Americans History Freedmen United States Genealogy Reconstruction (U.S.history, 1865-1877) Slave trade History Slavery United States United States History Civil War, 1861-1865 United States History Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775 United States History Revolution, 1775-1783 United States History Study and teachingFilter By Series
African American livesSummary: Listening to our Past is a piecing together of the family histories of four of the series participants. The episode explores the post-World War I “Great Migration” of African-Americans from the South to northern cities like Detroit and Chicago, as well as those who stayed in the South during the period of Jim Crow segregation. Henry Louis Gates, Jr. also begins an intriguing examination of his...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Summary: In this episode, when the paper trail runs out, Henry Louis Gates, Jr. visits scientists who are using DNA analysis to trace ancestral roots. With results in hand he meets with leading historians of the slave trade and discovers more fascinating details about his own ancestry. Finally, Professor Gates and a guest journey to Africa, where they visit the port from which the guest’s patrilineal...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Summary: The challenge of genealogical research is even more evident as Henry Louis Gates, Jr. continues back through the Colonial period of American history in this program. The film takes us on a journey to fill in the family trees of each of the series participants, through war service records and various records of property during slavery's apogee—including inventories, sales, or gifts of slaves. In...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Summary: This program looks at how African-Americans defined their freedom after slavery. Henry Louis Gates, Jr. reviews courthouse records of land acquisitions, documents from the Freedmen's Bureau and the 1870 census—the first in which African-Americans were counted as citizens, not property—to trace his subjects’ lineages through Reconstruction. A vein that continues throughout the series is Gates'...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005