History of Black Americans

Study African Americans using Online Video

Use these 3 online educational video titles to discover the hardships endured by African Americans in their fight for freedom, from the horrors of bondage aboard slave ships through the racism and greed that grew following the signing of the Emancipation Proclamation. Uncover the brutal conditions in which slaves lived and the roles played by free blacks in the North in securing white allies in the protest against slavery.

Learning Objectives:

• Gain insight to the development and operation of the African slave trade from the sixteenth to the nineteenth centuries and its effect on African culture and society.
• Understand the reasons the institution of slavery existed in the Americas and why Africans were sent in captivity to the New World to work as slaves.
• Examine the daily hardships endured by black slaves in North America.
• Understand the significant ways in which African American slaves and those freed from slavery contributed to the economic and cultural development of America.
• Identify African Americans who fought to end slavery, and survey their methods of protest, including private acts of rebellion, armed revolts, and political protests.
• Discuss how African Americans contributed to the Union victory in the Civil War.

• History > African American History > The Struggle For Freedom
• The Slave Trade (Runtime: 13:24)
• Slavery and Plantation Life (Runtime: 15:26)
• Rebels and Abolutionists (Runtime: 15:24)