I hated this show
I know that the show was for kids, but I hated it because they made it seem like the slaves were always treated nicely.
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As I stated above, you have to be smart when you introduce children to real world history. You can't show them the harsh parts because there are some things children can't and shouldn't be allowed to comprehend at a young age. Yet, it IS always good to get children, at a young age, interested in history nonetheless. This show, IMO, is a good stepping stone to get children more interested in history. And that will at least help them when they grow a little older and learn the true harshness of history. But for that type of material, no cartoon should ever show that to a child. That's work for teachers and parents.
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You are right, but I just feel like they are lying to the children. I do get your point though
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Is this show still current and on the air? The credits show 2002 but it doesn't give an end date. If ended, how far up to the present did they get-i.e. how did it end?
shareIt ended in April of 2003, unfortunately.
Also, I would love to know where in this show, African Americans were treated 'nicely.' Slavery is mentioned a lot of times in this show, and if you're talking about Moses, he already has his freedom, thus can't be pushed around.
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There were a few times, like at taverns and on the battlefield where they was almost an equal number of white men and black men being... friendly? There would be a few tavern scenes, one in the Boston tea Party episode, where at least one black woman is present in the tavern and is angered with the colonists and looks like she is about to run out and charge the ship with the men. Most camp and battlefield scenes white and black men are interacting nicely.
The only few times where racism (toward African Americans) is really mentioned is in the South, Moses's recollections, and the British camps.
But I was surprised with how the Native American treatment was handled. Especially the deaths of the chief and his son in the episode where Sarah meets her father in the Ohio River Valley.
"There were a few times, like at taverns and on the battlefield where they was almost an equal number of white men and black men being... friendly?"
Only a few times, but not a lot. Not everyone was racist back then.
"one in the Boston tea Party episode, where at least one black woman is present in the tavern and is angered with the colonists and looks like she is about to run out and charge the ship with the men. Most camp and battlefield scenes white and black men are interacting nicely.
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About the woman, she's not allowed to have the same viewpoint about what's going on? That's all I saw there.
About the battlefield/camp scenes, there wasn't a lot of that, and like I said, not everyone was racist back then.
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