America's Long Struggle against Slavery. Season 1.

America's Long Struggle against Slavery Season 1. Season 1.

Streaming video - 2020

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. Professor Richard Bell's 30 eye-opening episodes give you an up-close view of a venal institution and the people who fought against it, and who often paid for their courage with their lives.

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Subjects
Race.
Slavery.
History, Modern.
Americans.
Enthnology.
Published
[United States] : The Great Courses 2020.
Language
English
Corporate Author
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Corporate Author
hoopla digital (-)
Other Authors
The Great Courses (film director), Richard Bell (actor)
Online Access
Instantly available on hoopla.
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Physical Description
1 online resource (30 video files (approximately 798 min.)) : sd., col
Format
Mode of access: World Wide Web.
Audience
Rated TVPG.
Production Credits
Directed by The Great Courses.
Access
AVAILABLE FOR USE ONLY BY IOWA CITY AND RESIDENTS OF THE CONTRACTING GOVERNMENTS OF JOHNSON COUNTY, UNIVERSITY HEIGHTS, HILLS, AND LONE TREE (IA).
  • Episode 1 Understanding the Fight Against Slavery Episode 2 Origins of Slavery in the British Empire Episode 3 Opposing the African Slave Trade Episode 4 Shipboard Rebellion and Resistance Episode 5 A Free Black Family in Colonial Virginia Episode 6 Quakers and Puritans Join the Fight Episode 7 Thomas Thistlewood's Plantation Revolution Episode 8 Phibbah Thistlewood: Sleeping with the Enemy Episode 9 Slave Insurrections in the 18th Century Episode 10 Maroons: Those Who Escaped Episode 11 Three Quaker Activists Episode 12 Slavery in the War for Independence Episode 13 Taking Slavery to Court Episode 14 Charles Pinckney's Counterrevolution Episode 15 The Haitian Revolution Episode 16 Founding the Free Black Churches Episode 17 The Second Middle Passage Episode 18 "Our Native Country": Opposing Colonization Episode 19 David Walker, Nat Turner, and Black Immediatism Episode 20 William Lloyd Garrison's "Thousand Witnesses" Episode 21 Surviving King Cotton Episode 22 Roger Taney: Nationalizing Slavery Episode 23 Frederick Douglass and Aggressive Abolition Episode 24 Harriet Beecher Stowe and Harriet Tubman Episode 25 The Black Heart of John Brown Episode 26 The Slaves' Experience of the Civil War Episode 27 US Colored Troops: Those Who Served Episode 28 Fighting Slavery after Emancipation Episode 29 Slavery by Another Name Episode 30 Fighting Modern Slavery.

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