Must see on PBS, Reconstruction

[TBA]

So much context for what is happening today.

[area51]

1. PBS link

here.

[KT2000]

2. wish it was required in schools

The continual betrayal of the freed slaves is not commonly known but should be. Just yesterday a woman was explaining that her parents were not racists and she wasn't, so she shouldn't be lumped in because she is white. She is a very kind person who feels hurt because she feels accused. If she watched Reconstruction, she would understand the big picture.
Henry Louis Gates Jr. has done a great service. I just wish more would watch it.

[appalachiablue]

3. Another great series. People need to know the history.

Watch online or PBS TV channels, https://www.democraticunderground.com/1017538812

[Rollo]

4. It's very good...

I taped both episodes (4 h total). Lot of stuff I never knew about. This is American history we must not forget.

[irisblue]

5. Side info, an Eminent scholar on slavery. esp in the US just passed

Snip--David Brion Davis, a Pulitzer Prize-winning scholar whose three-volume chronicle of international slavery demonstrated its centrality to Western history, laying bare its political, economic and cultural impact through prose that was rich in detail and moral power, died April 14. He was 92.

His death was announced by Yale University, where he was a professor emeritus of American history and the founding director of the Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance and Abolition. The school did not say where or how he died.

That slavery is now seen as a defining thread of American history — the subject of great literature and art, as well as of a heated political debate over reparations in the 2020 Democratic primary — is in large part the achievement of Dr. Davis, who wrote more than a dozen books and scores of articles in a half-century career"


Snip-Dr. Davis’s principal scholarly work was the “Problems of Slavery” trilogy. The series included “The Problem of Slavery in Western Culture” (1966), which won the Pulitzer Prize for general nonfiction over Truman Capote’s “In Cold Blood”; “The Problem of Slavery in the Age of Revolution” (1975), which received a National Book Award and the Bancroft Prize for American history; and “The Problem of Slavery in the Age of Emancipation” (2014), which won a National Book Critics Circle Award."


Sourcehttps://www.washingtonpost.com/amphtml/local/obituaries/david-brion-davis-pulitzer-winning-historian-who-reshaped-study-of-slavery-dies-at-92/2019/04/16/9727b2e8-6050-11e9-9ff2-abc984dc9eec_story.html
More at article

This mans scholarship changed how US historians researched and taught history of slavery in te US & world.



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