The Black Atlantic Film Analysis

The main purpose of this film is the explore the life of African Americans throughout the world over the past several years. It gives you the highlights of the tragedies, triumphs and contradiction of the black experiences. This film was written and presented by Henry Gates Jr. Gates highlighted the black Spanish conquistador in 1513 named Juan Garrido convoyed Ponce de León on his expedition into what is now the state of Florida. Thus, the airing of The African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross coincided with the 500th anniversary of the presence of persons of African ancestry in what is today the continental United States.
Among the other prominent facts profiled in the series are: Harriet Tubman, Richard Allen, Frederick Douglass, Robert Smalls, Ida B. Wells, W. E. B. Du Bois, Booker T. Washington, Marcus Garvey, Oscar Micheaux, Rosa Parks, Martin Luther King, Jr., Ruby Bridges, Charlayne Hunter-Gault, Kathleen Neal Cleaver, Maulana Karenga, Colin Powell, etc. This film result in meaning to the filmmaker that there’s no America without African Americans. The structure of this film helps you understand that African Americans are
Beginning a full era before the first documented slaves arrived at Jamestown, Virginia the episode portrays the earliest Africans, both slave and free, who arrived on the North American shores. Soon afterwards, the Trans-Atlantic slave trade would become a massive empire connecting three continents. Through stories of individuals caught in its net, like a 10-year-old girl named Priscilla who was transported from Sierra Leone to South Carolina in the mid-18th century, tracing the appearance of plantation slavery in the American South. The late 18th century saw a global explosion of freedom movements, and The Black Atlantic examines the Era of Revolutions American, French and Haitian would mean for African Americans, and for slavery in