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Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
The end of the Civil War brought legalized slavery in the United States to an end, and 3.5 million freed slaves in the South stepped into an uncertain future. Dive into some of the many challenges Americans (white and black, southern and northern) faced in the subsequent years.
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
The American Revolution marked a watershed in the history of opposition to African slavery in America. In northern states, Pennsylvania led the charge in legal changes that would lead to gradual abolition. While abolition efforts failed in southern states, some individual slaves were able to strike deals with their masters for manumission.
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Among runaway slaves, men outnumbered women nearly two to one, but that doesn't mean women played no role in resistance. As this episode will make clear, women practiced several strategies for resistance, critically important because of the prevalence of assault on plantations. A woman named Phibbah provides a fascinating case study.
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
One hallmark of the plantation economy in Barbados, Jamaica, and South Carolina is that black slaves outnumbered their white masters by a wide margin. As such, see how whites used dehumanizing tactics to control the slave population. Then review Tacky's Revolt, one of the largest slave rebellions in the British Atlantic world during the 18th century.
45) Quilombo
Publisher
ArtMattan Films
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
Portuguese
Description
This historical saga is a stirring fusion of folklore, political impact and dynamic story-telling, realized in vibrant tropical colors and set to the pulsing beat of Gilberto Gil's musical score. After the slave revolt of 1641, groups of enslaved black Brazilians escaped to mountainous jungle strongholds where they formed self-governing communities. This film is the chronicle of the most famous of these communities which flourished for several decades...
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
While many abolition efforts started to take hold after the American Revolution, an equally powerful revolution was underway to secure the slave system. Here, review the reprehensible three-fifths clause and other pro-slavery measures in the 1787 Constitution, which would take antislavery activists decades to undo.
47) America's Long Struggle against Slavery: Episode 20,William Lloyd Garrison's "Thousand Witnesses"
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
David Walker's words and Nat Turner's actions had a galvanizing effect upon white abolitionists, most notably William Lloyd Garrison. See how Garrison and others shifted from an attitude of slow, gradual change to a stance of immediacy. Survey an unprecedented campaign to challenge slaveholders' moral authority in the 1830s.
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Meet three important Quaker activists from the 17th and 18th centuries: a fiery hermit writer named Benjamin Lay, a shopkeeper and essayist named John Woolman, and a schoolteacher named Anthony Benezet, who set up Philadelphia's first Free African School. Reflect on the transformation in attitudes that was occurring during the 18th century.
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
The novel Uncle Tom's Cabin, by American author Harriet Beecher Stowe, focuses on a slave named Uncle Tom to weave a portrayal of the cruelty of slavery, finding redemption in the idea that Christian love can conquer something so destructive.
It turned out to be the bestselling novel of the nineteenth century, helping to further the abolitionist cause after publication in 1852. At the start of the American Civil War Abraham Lincoln
50) They Are We
Publisher
Icarus Films
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
THEY ARE WE tells the story of the Ganga-Longoba and the village their ancestor called home. It is the story of how a family separated by the slave trade can reunite through the shared heritage of music and dance.
Author
Series
Ballantyne novels volume prequel
Publisher
Zaffre
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
A prequel to A Falcon Flies traces the story of Augustus Mungo St John, who upon returning from university discovers his inheritance and childhood sweetheart under the control of scheming enemy, Chester Marion.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Description
Presents the adventures of a boy and a runaway slave as they travel down the Mississippi River on a raft. Universally acclaimed as one of the greatest creations of American fiction, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is one of those few books that are read over and over again, with ever increasing enjoyment.
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
After Atlanta fell, Hood tried to draw Sherman northward. Sherman followed briefly before deciding to cut loose from his supply lines on his famous March to the Sea, implementing the "strategy of exhaustion" in the Confederate interior.
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
The US Navy played a major, often overlooked, role in defeating the CSA. Starting the war with just 42 ships, the Navy would have nearly 700 by 1865. Northern naval strategy focused on supporting ground operations along Southern rivers and coasts, and above all, on the blockade. With nothing like the North's industrial base, how did the Confederate Navy perform?
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
The Confederacy faced a difficult strategic situation in July 1862. Jefferson Davis and his generals responded by sending armies into Kentucky and Maryland in the most impressive Confederate strategic offensive of the war. Operations in Kentucky between August and October 1862 culminated in a confused battle at Perryville.
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Gettysburg is often described as the turning point of the war. It took place against a background of uncertainty and unrest in the North and was the result of a major strategic debate in the South. Why did Lee go north? Was his strategic thinking sound? What swung the three-day battle's outcome? How did people on either side view Gettysburg?
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Did the Confederacy have better generals? Which side had the edge in strategic and political leadership? What were the attitudes of England and France toward the conflict? Which side marshaled its resources and exploited its advantages more effectively?
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