America's Long Struggle Against Slavery

by Richard Bell

Streaming video, 2020

Status

Available

Collection

Publication

Great Courses (2020), 30 lectures, 26 minutes each, 225 pages

Language

Original language

English

Local notes

[01] Understanding the Fight against Slavery [02] Origins of Slavery in the British Empire [03] Opposing the African Slave Trade [04] Shipboard Rebellion and Resistance [05] A Free Black Family in Colonial Virginia [06] Quakers and Puritans Join the Fight [07] Thomas Thistlewood’s Plantation Revolution [08] Phibbah Thistlewood: Sleeping with the Enemy [09] Slave Insurrections in the 18th Century [10] Maroons: Those Who Escaped [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 [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" [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 [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 [30] Fighting Modern Slavery
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