Free video Series To Spotlight Gullah Heritage
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The National Park Service invites the public to a series of free video presentations at Charles Pinckney National Historic Site every Sunday at 2:00 p.m. during February and March 2010.
The series will focus on African-American culture and history in the Lowcountry and will complement the Gullah heritage programs at the park each Saturday during the same period.
February features the PBS series Slavery and the Making of America. This four part series examines the history of slavery in the United States and the integral role it played in shaping the new country’s development.
February 7: Volume 1: The Downward Spiral covers the period from 1619 through 1739. It spotlights the origins of slavery in America and culminates with the bloody Stono Rebellion in South Carolina.
February 14: Volume 2: Liberty in the Air spans the 1740s through the 1830s. It explores the continued expansion of slavery in the colonies, the evolution of a distinct African-American culture and the roots of the emancipationist movement.
February 21: Volume 3: Seeds of Destruction looks at the period from 1800 through the start of the Civil War when slavery saw an enormous expansion and entered its final decades.
February 28: Volume 4: The Challenge of Freedom takes viewers through the Civil War, Reconstruction, and beyond as it follows the life of South Carolinian Robert Smalls.
The series will focus on African-American culture and history in the Lowcountry and will complement the Gullah heritage programs at the park each Saturday during the same period.
February features the PBS series Slavery and the Making of America. This four part series examines the history of slavery in the United States and the integral role it played in shaping the new country’s development.
February 7: Volume 1: The Downward Spiral covers the period from 1619 through 1739. It spotlights the origins of slavery in America and culminates with the bloody Stono Rebellion in South Carolina.
February 14: Volume 2: Liberty in the Air spans the 1740s through the 1830s. It explores the continued expansion of slavery in the colonies, the evolution of a distinct African-American culture and the roots of the emancipationist movement.
February 21: Volume 3: Seeds of Destruction looks at the period from 1800 through the start of the Civil War when slavery saw an enormous expansion and entered its final decades.
February 28: Volume 4: The Challenge of Freedom takes viewers through the Civil War, Reconstruction, and beyond as it follows the life of South Carolinian Robert Smalls.
