Video: American Experience
As television's longest-running, most-watched history series, American Experience brings to life the incredible characters and epic stories that helped form this nation.
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American Experience | One Slave Makes a Difference | PBS (#101)
Escaped slave George Latimer's imprisonment and subsequent release affects the country. 01:26
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American Experience | Douglass Publishes "The North Star" | PBS (#101)
In Rochester, NY, Frederick Douglass publishes abolitionist newspaper "The North Star." 02:24
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American Experience | Tragedy Leads to Inspiration | PBS (#101)
An 1849 Cholera outbreak in Cincinnati claims Harriet Beecher Stowe's beloved son Charlie. 02:52
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American Experience | Abolitionist Allies Fall Out | PBS (#101)
After the Fugitive Slave Law of 1850, abolition takes on a new urgency for enslaved people 02:54
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American Experience | Uncle Tom's Cabin | PBS (#101)
Harriet Beecher Stowe writes the most popular and influential book in American history. 02:56
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American Experience | Failed Protests | PBS (#101)
In the Spring of 1854, fugitive slave Anthony Burns sat in Boston's city jail. 02:55
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American Experience | Garrison Gets Attacked | PBS
William Lloyd Garrison is attacked by an anti-abolitionist mob in Boston in 1835. 01:59
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American Experience | Two Abolitionists Unite | PBS (#101)
Abolitionist activists Angelina Grimke and Theodore Weld come together. 02:49
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American Experience | The Burning of Pennsylvania Hall | PBS (#101)
An anti-abolitionist mob threatens a meeting and burns Pennsylvania Hall to the ground. 01:29
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American Experience | Frederick Douglass Finds Freedom | PBS (#101)
Frederick Douglass and his wife settle in New Bedford, MA where he does hard manual labor. 00:49
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American Experience | Douglass and Garrison Meet | PBS (#101)
In September of 1838, Frederick Douglass and William Lloyd Garrison met in Nantucket. 02:37
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American Experience | A Powerful Partnership | PBS (#101)
Frederick Douglass agrees to join William Lloyd Garrison to advocate for abolitionism. 02:53
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American Experience | Angelina Grimke Goes Public | PBS (#2501)
After reading reports of pro-slavery violence, Angelina Grimke began to speak out publicly 02:59
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American Experience | Frederick Douglass Reacts | PBS (#2501)
In 1833, Frederick Douglass was sent to a slave breaker to be beaten back into submission. 02:59
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American Experience | Garrison Publishes "The Liberator" | PBS (#2501)
William Lloyd Garrison published the first issue of "The Liberator" on January 1, 1831. 02:21
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American Experience | Harriet Beecher Stowe Witnesses a Slave Auction | PBS (#2501)
On a day trip to Kentucky in 1832, Harriet Beecher happened upon her first slave auction. 02:21
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American Experience | Angelina Grimke Rebels | PBS (#2501)
Despite living in luxury, Angelina Grimke believed slavery was a sin of God. 02:59
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American Experience | Angelina Leaves Home | PBS (#2501)
In 1829, Angelina Grimke left Charleston for an uncertain future in the North. 01:37
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American Experience | Burning Abolitionist Literature | PBS (#2501)
The Anti-Slavery Society's great postal campaign of 1835 triggered a wave of repression. 01:58
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American Experience | Ric Burns on making Death & the Civil War | PBS
Producer Ric Burns discusses the intricacies of making Death and the Civil War. 02:59
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