Africans in America. The terrible transformation. Part 1
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David Blight is interviewed about the contradictions of freedom and prosperity, The Great Awakening of the 1740s, Christianity spreads among black Americans, the Declaration of Independence and the challenge to slavery, The Constitution, free states vs. slave states, free blacks resulting from the Revolutionary War, expansion of southern slavery after the Revolution.
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38 minutes
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Alexander Street
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