The Black Atlantic.

A film by Dr. Henry Louis Gates, esteemed Alphonse Fletcher University Professor of African American Studies and English at Harvard University. His seminal work, Many Rivers to Cross (2013) is a useful accompaniment to our text and you’ll be watching Episode 1: The Black Atlantic. •point of interest or contention that you found in the film •related to black people in colonial North America, African Americans and the struggle for independence, or African Americans in the new nation •include specific examples from the film