# 1619 - Up from Slavery ★ 14 Part Series with MKV and Subtitles

1619 - Up from Slavery ★ 14 Part Series with MKV and Subtitles I know, I know: Black History Month was in February. But this Set of DVDs just showed up the other day: https://archive.org/details/up_from_slavery_iso and I'm grateful to the original uploader. So, apologies, this is only a month late for Black History Month. In order to use the subtitles, in either the .MP4 or the .MKV videos: you must download them to your device, and play them from there - with a media player (like VLC) that shows subtitles. A chronicle of a struggle 400 years in the making. From the first African slaves in the colonies to today, the rights of life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness have been tested throughout the history of America and are examined in this 14-part documentary series. In 1860, as the American Experiment threatened to explode into a bloody civil war, there were as many as four hundred thousand slave-owners in the United States, and almost four million slaves. The nation was founded upon the idea that all men are created equal and endowed by their creator with the inalienable rights of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. The nation would pay a bloody cost for denying that right to more than twelve percent of its population. But when slavery was first brought to America's shores, this war, and even the nation it tore apart, was centuries in the future. With incredibly detailed historical reenactments, expert commentary and the stories of slavery told through first-hand…

- Kind: Talk
- Year: 2020
- By: LionHeart FilmWorks
- Genres: Documentary, Education, History
- Archive: [Internet Archive](https://archive.org/details/up_from_slavery)
- Licence or status: none stated by the archive
- Who can watch: Teens profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

[Watch now](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/watch/archive/ia/up_from_slavery?play=1)