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American Experience | Garrison Introduces Douglass | PBS

Duration: 02:16
Program: The Abolitionists: American Experience #2501
Broadcast Date: Jan. 9, 2013

William Lloyd Garrison speaks to a crowd of abolitionists in Nantucket, Massachusetts. He introduces the self-emancipated Frederick Douglass, soon leading to a powerful partnership with a common cause -- immediate abolition of slavery.

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