Africans in America. Judgment day. Part 4
Description
David Blight is interviewed about David Walker's appeal for insurrection in 1829, William Lloyd Garrison and moral suasion, burning of Pennsylvania Hall in 1838 and attacks on abolitionists, black communities in the north and racism, Vigilance Committees, slave narratives and Uncle Tom's Cabin, Fugitive Slave law of 1850, Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854, the Free Soil Movement, the Dred Scott decision, insurrection fears, John Brown and Frederick Douglass, raid on Harper's Ferry, election of Lincoln and secession movement.
Runtime
90 minutes
Series
Subjects
- Abolitionists (90)
- African Americans (1140)
- Antislavery movements (105)
- Slavery (212)
- Slave insurrections (13)
Contributor
Geography
Genre
Database
Alexander Street
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