Africans in America

Africans in America

Jarret Garner

HST-104

Dr. Olberston

September 21, 2012

Africans in America

<http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part1/narrative.html> Created and managed by PBS history department and WGBH, Arlington, V.I. Reviewed September 20, 2012.

While exploring Africans in America I didn't have a whole lot of difficulty finding interesting facts. This site is centered to help students and teachers find information on the subject of African history during the slavery era. This website was designed quite neatly it had many links to other websites. It also directed me to many informative articles. The website creators formatted the site to be directed to any person who would want to research African life during 1450-1860. There also are some episodes from PBS television network that are insightful for researchers visiting this site.

While looking through the vast array of topics and information there were tons of facts and intriguing situations. One section that stuck with me while reviewing this website was this excerpt of the New York Times, "We are two peoples. We are a people for Freedom and a people for slavery. Between the two, conflict is inevitable." This excerpt really shocked me, I knew that our economy had relied on slave labor during that era, but not the whole country agreed with slave labor, also that the country thought Africans as a completely different social class. Also they touched on rebellions during slave times that I had never heard of for instance Gabriel's Rebellion (1800), Denmark Vesey's Plot (1822), and Nat Turner's Revolt (1831).

PBS set this site up very efficiently. It is very easy to navigate between different time periods. The designers have divided the five hundred year period into four sections. After selecting a time period there are multiple different sections on topics pertaining to the time period. The teaching section of the site had many different worksheets and lesson plans for the different time periods. The designers used many "hot" colors that represent African background. They use a nice dark red and orange as the background. The colors set an African tone, or a hot southern United States feel. After selecting