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The African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross

The Black Atlantic

Season 1 Episode 1 | 53m 10s

“The Black Atlantic” explores the global experiences that created the African-American people. Beginning a century before the first documented “20-and-odd” slaves came to Jamestown, Virginia, the episode portrays the earliest Africans, slave and free, who arrived on these shores. The transatlantic slave trade soon became a vast empire connecting three continents.

Aired: 10/21/13 | Expires: 07/11/21
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A More Perfect Union (1968-2013) - Preview
Premieres Tuesday, November 26, 2013 at 8:00 p.m. ET/PT. Check your local listings.
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