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Publisher
Mill Creek Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2011
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (ca. 5 hr., 6 min.) : sd., col. with b&w sequences ; 4 3/4 in
Language
English
Description
Up From Slavery is a powerful, compelling and haunting 7-part documentary series that examines the history of slavery in America, from the arrival of the first African slaves through Nat Turner's Rebellion to the Civil War and beyond. In 1860, as the American Experiment threatened to explode into a bloody civil war, there were as many as four hundred thousand slave-owners in the United States, and almost four million slaves. The nation was founded...
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (approx. 4 hr.) : sound, color, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Henry Louis Gates Jr. presents an examination of one of the most consequential and least understood chapters in U.S. history when, after the Civil War, the nation struggled to reunite North and South while living up to the promise of citizenship for millions of freed African Americans.
Publisher
A & E Home Video
Pub. Date
[2002]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (150 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in
Language
English
Description
Traces the journey to freedom taken by countless slaves, showing how they were guided, protected and pursued along the way. The extraordinary story is told through historical documents, visits to important sites, interviews with the descendants of noted abolitionists and commentary from experts
10) Rough crossings
Publisher
Distributed in the USA and Canada by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
©2008
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 84 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Tells the story of the struggle for freedom by thousands of African-American ex-slaves who fled Southern plantations to fight behind British lines in the American War of Independence. Follows their dream of a journey to freedom in bone-chilling Nova Scotia and Sierra Leone. Features the stories of Englishman John Clarkson, a passionate advocate of the abolition of slavery, and two African men, Thomas Peters and David George, who escaped slavery in...
Publisher
WGBH Educational Foundation
Pub. Date
c2013
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 180 min.) : sd., col. with b&w sequences ; 4 3/4 in
Language
English
Description
"Radicals. Agitators. Troublemakers. Liberators. Called many names, the abolitionists tore the nation apart in order to create a more perfect union. Men and women, black and white, Northerners and Southerners, poor and wealthy, these passionate anti-slavery activists fought body and soul in the most important civil rights crusade in American history"--Container
Publisher
PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
c2012
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (87 min.) : sd., col. with b&w sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Challenges one of America's most cherished assumptions, the belief that slavery in the U.S. ended with Abraham Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation, by telling the harrowing story of how, in the South, a new system of involuntary servitude took its place with shocking force.
Publisher
The Teaching Company
Pub. Date
©1996
Physical Desc
6 videodiscs (approximately 900 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 study workbook (iv, 106 pages ; 28 cm).
Language
English
Description
This series covers America's history from the age of Pre-Columbian Native Americans, through European discovery, colonization, independence, the forging of a young nation, and the settling of the American frontier. Students will look at the history of the United States from a new perspective, as they explore the events that have shaped modern American society. Professor Linwood Thompson is the visual aid for these lectures--they are delivered in period...
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