Foreword African origins Early African kingdoms Great Zimbabwe Mansa Musa Askia the Great Nzinga Mbandi Later African kingdoms Slavery in the US Toussaint L’Ouverture Olaudah Equiano Mary Seacole Frederick Douglass Harriet Tubman Rebecca Lee Crumpler Lewis Howard Latimer African Americans and the US Civil War The 54th Massachusetts Sarah Breedlove Colonialism in Africa Zora Neale …
Clothes and Hairstyles Family Life The Home Education Gladiators Diet Health and Medicine Emperors Behaving Badly Ancient Roman Gods Fun and Games Still Think You’ve Got It Bad? Glossary
Chapter One Amma Yazz Dominique Chapter Two Carole Bummi LaTisha Chapter Three Shirley Winsome Penelope Chapter Four Megan/Morgan Hattie Grace Chapter Five The After-Party Epilogue
00:36:40 Interval feature (music and visuals only, no narration) connecting with Ludwig Beethoven (for 250th anniversary year): Beethovens Blätterwirbel / The Lost Music – sheets of music blow out of Beethoven’s window, and woman goes around various locations picking them up. Musicians from the Wiener Philharmoniker play Beethoven chamber pieces in some of these locations.