America's long struggle against slavery

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America's Long Struggle against Slavery is a chance to survey the history of the American anti-slavery movement, from the dawn of the transatlantic slave trade during the late 15th century to the end of Reconstruction in 1877 and beyond. Taught by Professor Richard Bell of the University of Maryland, these 30 eye-opening lectures give an up-close view of a venal institution and the people who fought against it, and who often paid for their courag...

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Slavery History

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ISBN:

9781629979120

Description:

6 videodiscs (15 hrs.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in
4 3/4 in
digital optical
videodisc
NTSC
video file
DVD video

Target Audience Note:

Canadian Home Video Rating: Not rated

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references in course guidebook
Lecturer: Richard Bell, University of Maryland, College Park
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Contents:

DISC 1: 1. Understanding the fight against slavery
2. Origins of slavery in the British Empire
3. Opposing the African slave trade
4. Shipboard rebellion and resistance
5. A free black family in colonial Virginia
DISC 2: 6. Quakers and Puritans join the fight
7. Thomas Thistlewood's plantation revolution
8. Phibbah Thistlewood: sleeping with the enemy
9. Slave insurrections in the 18th century
10. Maroons: those who escaped
DISC 3: 11. Three Quaker activists
12. Slavery in the War for Independence
13. Taking slavery to court
14. Charles Pinckney's counterrevolution
15. The Haitian revolution
DISC 4: 16. Founding the free black churches
17. The second middle passage
18. "Our native country": opposing colonization
19. David Walker, Nat Turner, and black immediatism
20. William Lloyd Garrison's "Thousand witnesses"
DISC 5: 21. Surviving King Cotton
22. Roger Taney: nationalizing slavery
23. Frederick Douglass and aggressive abolition
24. Harriet Beecher Stowe and Harriet Tubman
25. The black heart of John Brown
DISC 6: 26. The slaves' experience of the Civil War
27. US colored troops: those who served
28. Fighting slavery after emancipation
29. Slavery by another name
20. Fighting modern slavery

Control Number:

2977530

UPC:

978162997912

Other Authors:

Bell, Richard, 1978-
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