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This comprehensive program chronicles the institution of slavery in North America, beginning with the notorious "middle passage" from Africa in the 1600s through Harriet Tubman and the Underground Railroad, the Civil War, emancipation and Reconstruction. Expert interviews and archival photographs help to describe slave resistance, the slave family, abolitionism, slave religion and the difficulties facing post-war Black Americans, dispelling the myth that slavery was a passive state and highlighting the persistent struggle by African Americans to end it. (Library Video Company, USA) |
