Black History - The Price

DateJanuary 28 1986

Can DescriptionsMaster; Black History - The Price

Abstract"The Price: The History of Slavery" hosted by LeVar Burton; 1066 is the start of the story that describes slavery as evidence of wealth; James Blackwell explains the variety of justifications for slavery; the slave trade values changes by the 1500s as the needs of the traders changes across the Atlantic; the views about the value of Africans shifted from workers to objects of commerce; Indians and some groups of Europeans were unwilling to fill the gap of becoming slaves through indentured servitude; Nathan Huggins talks about the contradictions of slavery and democracy at the time the colonies' independence; emancipation has not yet been achieved, according to James Blackwell, even though 1863 legal status changed the rights of Blacks in the U.S.

OtherCredits: Produced by Karl Nurse, host LeVar Burton, written by Steve Hemingway, videotape editor Geoffrey Sullivan, post production editors George Ellard, Doug DeVitt, Alan Pratt, graphic design Marcelle, videography Rodney Grace, sound Ellen Boyce, special thanks to Prof. James Blackwell, Prof. Nathan Huggins, photographs courtesy of The Shomberg [Schomburg] Center for Research in Black Culture, The New York Public Library, vice president for community programing Donna Latson-Gittens, copyright MCMLXXXVI Metromedia Radio & Television, Inc. all rights reserved