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Offline Machiavelli

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Roots: The Groundbreaking Series Reimagined
« on: May 18, 2016, 04:41:24 pm »
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May 17, 2016

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HISTORY® premieres "Roots" on Memorial Day 2016, airing over four consecutive nights at 9 p.m. beginning Monday, May 30, it was announced today by Paul Buccieri, President of A&E and HISTORY. The four-night, eight-hour event series developed by HISTORY, from A+E Studios, is a historical portrait of American slavery recounting the journey of one family and their will to survive and ultimately carry on their legacy despite hardship.
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Re: Roots: The Groundbreaking Series Reimagined
« Reply #1 on: May 25, 2016, 01:35:19 am »
Maybe they'll show the slaves being captured by other blacks and the white slavers paying the black chieftains who kept the slaves in coastal prisons for the white slavers. But somehow I doubt it.