A New History of the American South
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Examining Virginia's economic conditions before slavery; discontent among English indentured laborers; the rise of slavery in the British Caribbean; the factors that made slavery a business model in Virginia; how colonists rationalized slaveholding.
7-7:30AM
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30 Min
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2022
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History
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Season 1
Original Air Date: Aug 17, 2018
Investigating the complex origins of slavery in Africa; how the Atlantic slave trade was initiated by the Portuguese; a system of vast economic gain; supplying labor for New World plantations; the intended functions of Britain's American colonies.
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Original Air Date: Aug 17, 2018
Recounting the saga of the American South; the prehistory of the region, from its geographical features to its ancient peoples; the history of the chiefdoms that dominated the region before the Europeans; tracing the decimation of native populations.
6-6:30AM
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30 Min
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