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AMERICAN EXPERIENCE "The Abolitionists" - William Lloyd Garrison | PBS (#101)
At 22, William Lloyd Garrison moved to Boston and determined that the abolition of slavery would be the cause that would give meaning to his life. AMERICAN EXPERIENCE's "The Abolitionists" premieres... 02:07
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AMERICAN EXPERIENCE "The Abolitionists" - Frederick Douglass and John Brown | PBS (#102)
John Brown meets with Frederick Douglass and reveals his radical plan to raise an army, attack plantations and free the slaves. AMERICAN EXPERIENCE's "The Abolitionists" premieres on Tuesday,... 02:11
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AMERICAN EXPERIENCE "The Abolitionists" - Harriet Beecher Stowe | PBS
Following the tragic death of her young son and moved by the plight of slave families being torn apart by the Fugitive Slave Law, Harriet Beecher Stowe wrote "Uncle Tom's Cabin". AMERICAN... 02:56
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AMERICAN EXPERIENCE "The Abolitionists" - Frederick Douglass and William Lloyd Garrison | PBS
After hearing Frederick Douglass speak at an anti-slavery convention in Nantucket, an inspired William Lloyd encourages Douglass to join the abolitionist movement. AMERICAN EXPERIENCE's "The... 02:55
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AMERICAN EXPERIENCE The Abolitionists - Angelina Grimké | PBS
Angelina Grimké, the outspoken daughter of a wealthy Charleston, South Carolina plantation family, believed that slavery was a sin and a stain on the nation. AMERICAN EXPERIENCE's "The... 03:00
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American Experience | The Abolitionists, Chapter 1 | PBS (#2501)
Premiering January 8, 9pm. To create a more perfect union, they tore the nation apart. 10:16
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Who is Harriet Beecher Stowe? | PBS
AMERICAN EXPERIENCE's "The Abolitionists" premieres on PBS January 8, 2013 at 9/8c. Learn more: www.pbs.org 02:51
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The Advisors of AMERICAN EXPERIENCE's The Abolitionists | PBS
Historians John Stauffer and Lois Brown talk about the value of the abolitionists' story. See Stauffer and Brown in AMERICAN EXPERIENCE's "The Abolitionists", premiering January 8, 2013 at 9/8c... 02:58
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American Experience | Garrison Introduces Douglass | PBS (#2501)
William Lloyd Garrison speaks to a crowd in Nantucket and introduces Frederick Douglass. 02:16
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American Experience | Fugitive Slave Act | PBS (#2501)
The Fugitive Slave Law of 1850 made the hunting down of escaped slaves full legal. 02:19
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American Experience | A Eulogy to the Movement | PBS (#2501)
Frederick Douglass offers a eulogy to the abolitionist movement at Garrison's funeral. 02:47
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Abolitionists | Who is John Brown? | PBS
AMERICAN EXPERIENCE's "The Abolitionists" premieres on PBS January 8, 2013 at 9/8c. Learn more: www.pbs.org 01:56
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Abolitionists | Who is Frederick Douglass? | PBS
AMERICAN EXPERIENCE's "The Abolitionists" premieres on PBS January 8, 2013 at 9/8c. Learn more: www.pbs.org 01:57
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THE DUST BOWL: A Film By Ken Burns | Premieres Sun., Nov. 18th | The Critics React | PBS
Survey the causes of the worst man-made ecological disaster in American history, when the frenzied wheat boom of the "Great Plow-Up," followed by a decade-long drought during the 1930s, nearly... 00:31
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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
Video Collections
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The Abolitionists: American Experience
On January 1, 1863, when abolitionist leaders Frederick Douglass and William Lloyd Garrison received word that the Emancipation Proclamation had declared three million enslaved African Americans "forever free," it was the culminating...
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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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Cuban Missile Crisis: Three Men Go to War
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Dust Bowl
In this series, Ken Burns and producer Dayton Duncan chronicle the Dust Bowl in all its complexities and profound human drama. It is both an oral history, using interviews of 30 survivors, and an historical accounting of what happened...
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Freedom Riders: American Experience
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Independent Lens
This acclaimed Emmy Award-winning anthology series features documentaries and a limited number of fiction films united by the creative freedom, artistic achievement and unflinching visions of their independent producers. INDEPENDENT LENS...
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Time Team America
This series puts viewers in the trenches to experience archaeology as it happens. Each episode unleashes a group of archaeologists, landscape specialists, scientists, historians and other experts onto an American archeological dig...
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