America’s Long Struggle against Slavery

<p>Witness the centuries-long fight against the institution of slavery from the western coast of Africa to the plantations and battlefields of America.</p>

Syllabus

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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Richard Bell

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