Africans in America. Judgment day. Part 4

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Norrece Jones is interviewed about Butler Island and lives of slaves on large plantations, the breaking up of families and desperate actions by slaves to avoid being sold, Frances "Fanny" Kemble, Headman Frank and the rape of his wife Betty, sexual violence against female slaves, the brutality of female slave owners, the Weeping Time, Cooper London, the lash and the whip, resistance, slave holders never held accountable for atrocities, mechanisms to keep black Americans down.

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53 minutes

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Alexander Street

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