Africans in America. The terrible transformation. Part 1

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Charles Joyner is interviewed about the origins of the South Carolina colony, the origins of rice culture, preparing the land for rice cultivation, the need for highly-skilled African slaves on rice plantations, diversity of Africans in South Carolina, the Middle Passage, fear of malaria and plagues, the task system in South Carolina, siege mentality and the Stono Rebellion, how a white minority controls a black majority, paradox of slavery and freedom in the Constitution and Declaration of Independence.

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61 minutes

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Alexander Street

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