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Digging for Slaves: The Excavation of American Slave Sites

Between the 16th and the 19th centuries, some ten million Africans were kidnapped and transported as slaves to America. Now archaeologists are digging up American slave sites for the first time, unearthing the realities of slave life and discovering the contributions of enslaved Africans to American society. This program provides many fascinating and surprising details at excavations of 18th-century slave quarters on Middleburg Plantation near Charleston; at Monticello, the home of Thomas Jefferson, whose slave holdings seem so irreconcilable with his expressed views on human freedom; and at Colonial Williamsburg, which until recently neglected to show the lives of the slaves who made up over half the town’s population but where an entire slave quarters is now being accurately reconstructed. (50 minutes)

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Item#: FMK3194
Copyright date: ©1989
VHS ISBN 978-1-56950-591-5
DVD ISBN 978-1-60467-061-5


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