Africans in America: America's Journey Through Slavery
1998•1 Seasons•4 Episodes•8.6•Ended
Documentary
Everything you thought you knew about slavery is about to be challenged. Africans in America: America’s Journey Through Slavery is the groundbreaking series that makes history by sharing it from a new perspective. Nearly ten years in the making, this landmark six-hour set exposes the truth through surprising revelations, dramatic recreations, rare archival photography and riveting first-person accounts.
Network
PBS
Origin
US
Cast
Angela Bassett
Herself
Episodes
Recommended
7.9
The Civil War
1990
8.1
The Men Who Built America
2012
6.6
American Experience
1988
7.1
History 101
2020
7.4
Superpowered: The DC Story
2023
6.7
Biography
1987
7.4
The Seventies
2015
8.6
Dear Mama
2023
7.6
Through the Wormhole
2010
7.2
Sean Combs: The Reckoning
2025
7.8
Welcome to Wrexham
2022
7.5
Hitler and the Nazis: Evil on Trial
2024
7
The Real History of Science Fiction
2014
8.1
Earth at Night in Colour
2020
7.8
Mr. McMahon
2024
7.7
The Roosevelts: An Intimate History
2014
7.6
Oliver Stone's Untold History of the United States
2012
8.2
The Vietnam War
2017
7.2
The New York Times Presents
2020
7.1
Cursed Films
2020
Similar Shows
Moderne Slavernij in Nederland
2018
6.7
Nevenka, Breaking the Silence
2021
6.8
Worn Stories
2021
7
Reconstruction: America After the Civil War
2019
8.1
The Men Who Built America
2012
7.9
George Carlin's American Dream
2022
6.8
Limitless: Live Better Now
2025
7.2
American Murder: Laci Peterson
2024
7.9
PCC, Secret Power
2022
6
Fit for TV: The Reality of the Biggest Loser
2025
4
The Tailor of Sin City
2024
8.6
Dear Mama
2023
6
God in America
2010
7.8
Into the Fire: The Lost Daughter
2024
7
Encounters
2023
George Alagiah: Mixed Britannia
2011
6.2
Nicki Minaj: My Truth
2012
Drive Thru History: American History
0
6.5
Sins of the Amish
2022
8.6
Planet Earth
2006