EVT DIGITAL SHOP
The EVT digital shop is a highly entertaining resource portal for students, educators and researchers. EVT produces educational material that can be used in various educational settings. Our audio and video collection spans various topics relating to the African-American experience.
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Video - Parts 1 & 2
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Audio - 13 Episode Audio Album
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PLUS 2 bonus tracks
EDUCATORS & HOMESCHOOLERS
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GIVE THE GIFT OF EDUCATION!
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We've divided this impactful documentary into 13 downloadable audio episodes for your listening convenience.
We have also included TWO BONUS TRACKS of the Then I'll Be Free to Travel Home soundtrack! Compelling and inspirational musical arrangements that would enhance any musical collection.
PROGRAM #1. "THEN I’LL BE FREE TO TRAVEL HOME" (OVERVIEW): (1624-1863).
Before slavery, free Africans travel America as traders and interpreters...for over 230 years,free and enslaved Africans battle for freedom, and first class citizenship, and contribute significantly to the survival and development of the nation...
PROGRAM #2. JUAN "JAN" RODRIGUES: THE FIRST FREE AFRICAN IN THE HUDSON VALLEY. (1613/1614).
In the early 1600s, free Africans travel North America as traders and interpreters... all part of the legacy of the New York African Burial Ground.
PROGRAM #3. SURVIVAL: THE ORIGINAL ELEVEN AFRICANS: (1624-1664).
The early African Settlers, and the survival-and-development of the New Netherlands Colony...
PROGRAM #4. ALMOST FREE: THE PUSH FOR PERSONAL AND ECONOMIC FREEDOM: (1664-1712).
The Africans’ drive for personal and economic freedom hits a snag as the Colony comes under British Rule.
PROGRAM #5. EARLY SLAVE REVOLTS: (NEW YORK 1712 , ETC).
An increased slave trade and repressive Black Codes explode into the first major slave uprising in North
America... the New York Slave Revolt of 1712...
PROGRAM #6. MORE REVOLTS AND "CONSPIRACIES": (1712-1775).
As the English colonials edge toward a revolution of their own, they worry about black revolts and conspiracies....
PROGRAM #7. THE REBELLION WITHIN THE REBELLION: (1765-1783).
HUDDY, TYE, and the black revolt within the American Revolution..
PROGRAM #8. SELF-DETERMINATION: (1783-1830).
Fighting segregation and discrimination, Blacks form their own churches, schools, theaters and newspapers... With white allies, they battle for a TOTAL end to slavery....
PROGRAM #9. ABOLITION, BACK TO AFRICA, & THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD: (1830-1854).
Blacks build a national political movement, battle a back to africa movement, and fight for an end to slavery...
PROGRAM #10. THE BATTLE FOR FREEDOM & FULL FIRST-CLASS CITIZENSHIP: (1830-1854).
Karherine Ferguson, Elizabeth Jennings, and Solomon Northrup-- memorable 19th century figures in the struggle for freedom and first class citizenship...
PROGRAM #11. SIGNS OF WAR: JOHN BROWN/FREDRICK DOUGLASS & HARPER’S FERRY: (1850-1860).
A new fugitive slave law splits the abolitionist movement, and pushes the country closer to war.
PROGRAM #12. LINCOLN’S DILEMMA, THE NY DRAFT RIOTS, & THE BATTLE OF FT. WAGNER: (JULY 1863).
The New York Draft Riots, The Battle of Fort Wagner, and Lincoln's dilemma: saving the Union or freeing the slaves?
PROGRAM #13. THE NEW YORK AFRICAN BURIAL GROUND BATTLE: (1991-2004).
Backhoes and bulldozers unearth an historic African Burial Ground, and trigger a major battle between the federal government and New York’s black community.