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America’s Long Struggle against Slavery

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<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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