Africans in America. Judgment day. Part 4

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James Horton is interviewed about life in 1830 in Washington DC, the vulnerability of free blacks, Solomon Northup, petitions against slavery, the Amistad case, harassment of abolitionists, rise of free black communities, Fugitive Slave Act of 1850, Anthony Burns, how slavery has shaped American culture, Bleeding Kansas, John Brown, Dangerfield Newby, Harpers Ferry, abolitionist movement becomes violent, slavery as an embarrassment in front of the world, 18th century African Burial Ground in New York City, resistance to maintain human dignity.

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82 minutes

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Alexander Street

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