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American Experience; Abolitionists, The, Part 1
BROADCAST MASTER - HD BASE The Abolitionists Part One, NOLA Code: ABOL 000101 Approximate date: 2012
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- Series
- American Experience
- Program
- Abolitionists, The, Part 1
- Program Number
2501
- Series Description
Premiered October 1988 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. Now in its eighteenth season, the series has produced over 180 programs and garnered every major broadcast award. Series release date: 10/1988
- Program Description
Shared beliefs about slavery bring together Angelina Grimke, the daughter of a Charleston plantation family, who moves north and becomes a public speaker against slavery; Frederick Douglass, a young slave who becomes hopeful when he hears about the abolitionists; William Lloyd Garrison, who founds the newspaper The Liberator, a powerful voice for the movement; Harriet Beecher Stowe, whose first trip to the South changes her life and her writing; and John Brown, who devotes his life to the cause. The abolitionist movement, however, is in disarray and increasing violence raises doubts about the efficacy of its pacifist tactics.
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- Duration
00:56:40
- Asset Type
Broadcast program
- Media Type
Video
- Genres
- Documentary
- Topics
- History
- Citation
- Chicago: “American Experience; Abolitionists, The, Part 1,” GBH Archives, accessed July 26, 2024, http://openvault.wgbh.org/catalog/V_DF3695995F4249A4B67C380ED00B4322.
- MLA: “American Experience; Abolitionists, The, Part 1.” GBH Archives. Web. July 26, 2024. <http://openvault.wgbh.org/catalog/V_DF3695995F4249A4B67C380ED00B4322>.
- APA: American Experience; Abolitionists, The, Part 1. Boston, MA: GBH Archives. Retrieved from http://openvault.wgbh.org/catalog/V_DF3695995F4249A4B67C380ED00B4322