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Africans In America; Brotherly Love (1776-1834); Interview with Albert Raboteau, 1996

Part of Africans in America.

12/12/1996

Albert Raboteau is interviewed about 1793 and the hope brought by the American Revolution, Richard Allen's conversion experience, Christianity and self-worth, founding of the Free African Society, founding of the African Methodist Episcopal Church, the Yellow Fever epidemic in Philadelphia, Richard Allen's reaction to the American Colonization Society, white Christianity vs. black Christianity, Nat Turner's Rebellion, Denmark Vesey's Conspiracy, Gabriel's Rebellion, Jarena Lee's conversion, separation of families, slave preachers, free black preachers and abolition.


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Series
Africans In America
Program
Brotherly Love (1776-1834)
Program Number

103

Title

Interview with Albert Raboteau, 1996

Series Description

Broadcast: October 1998 This series explores the central paradox that is at the heart of the American story: a democracy that declared all men equal but enslaved and oppressed one people to provide independence and prosperity to another. The series opens in the 16th century on Africa's Gold Coast with the European and African trade, and ends on the eve of the American Civil War in 1861. Africans in America examines the economic and intellectual foundations of slavery in America and the global economy that prospered from it. The series reveals how the presence of African people and their struggle for freedom transformed America. Series release date: 10/1998

Program Description

103 Brotherly Love (1776-1834)--Explores the first fifty years of the new nation. In Philadelphia, freedmen and fugitive slaves push the country to live up to the promises made in its Constitution. But with the invention of the cotton gin, slavery expands into America's western frontier, and a revolution in Haiti inspires slave rebellions throughout the southern United States. Producer: Jacquie Jones

Duration

01:26:36

Asset Type

Raw video

Media Type

Video

Genres
Interview
Topics
Race and Ethnicity
History
Creators
Smith, Llewellyn (Series Producer)
Contributors
Raboteau, Albert (Interviewee)
Publication Information
WGBH Educational Foundation
Rights Summary

Rights Holder: WGBH Educational Foundation

Citation
Chicago: “Africans In America; Brotherly Love (1776-1834); Interview with Albert Raboteau, 1996,” 12/12/1996, GBH Archives, accessed November 21, 2024, http://openvault.wgbh.org/catalog/V_E3C66B5696D042468C8B836A6977AF31.
MLA: “Africans In America; Brotherly Love (1776-1834); Interview with Albert Raboteau, 1996.” 12/12/1996. GBH Archives. Web. November 21, 2024. <http://openvault.wgbh.org/catalog/V_E3C66B5696D042468C8B836A6977AF31>.
APA: Africans In America; Brotherly Love (1776-1834); Interview with Albert Raboteau, 1996. Boston, MA: GBH Archives. Retrieved from http://openvault.wgbh.org/catalog/V_E3C66B5696D042468C8B836A6977AF31
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