Africans in America. Part 1, The terrible transformation. Interview with Charles Joyner, professor of Southern history and culture, Coastal Carolina University / [produced by WGBH].

Format:

Video

Contributor:

Bagwell, Orlando, producer.

Bellows, Susan, producer, director.

Joyner, Charles W., interviewee.

WGBH (Television station : Boston, Mass.), production company.

Series:

Academic Video Online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Joyner, Charles W--Interviews.

Joyner, Charles W.

African Americans--History--To 1863.

African Americans.

Slavery--South Carolina--History--17th century.

Slavery.

Slavery--Economic aspects--South Carolina--History--17th century.

South Carolina--History--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.

South Carolina.

Genre:

Interviews.

Unedited footage.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (61 minutes)

Place of Publication:

Boston, MA : WGBH Educational Foundation, [1998]

Language Note:

In English.

System Details:

data file

Summary:

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.

Participant:

Interviewee: Charles Joyner.

Notes:

Title from resource description page (viewed September 12, 2017).

OCLC:

1009118737