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1 online resource (streaming video file) (53 min. 37 sec.) ; 314871245 bytes |
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On January 1, 1863, abolitionist leaders Frederick Douglass and William Lloyd Garrison received word that the Emancipation Proclamation had declared three million enslaved African Americans "forever free", marking the culminating moment of the most important civil rights crusade in American history and the climax of a long and difficult friendship between two remarkable men.The Abolitionists honours the 150th anniversary of the Proclamation and tells the story of how Douglass, Garrison, and their abolitionist allies Harriet Beecher Stowe, John Brown, and Angelina Grimke, turned a despised fringe movement against chattel slavery into a force that literally changed the nation.The series places the story of abolition in the context of some of the most violent and contentious decades in U.S history and reveals the many ways that abolitionists laid the civil rights groundwork for the future, raising weighty constitutional and moral questions that are still with Americans today. The Abolitionists interweaves traditional documentary storytelling with dramatised scenes to vividly bring to life the epic struggles of the men and women who ended slavery.Follow the conversation on Twitter #NITV |
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Broadcast 2013-11-17 at 20:30:00 |
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Classification: PG |
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Douglass, Frederick, 1818-1895.
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Garrison, William Lloyd, 1805-1879.
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Abolitionists.
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Antislavery movements.
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Historical television programs.
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Slavery.
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United States.
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Streaming video
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Alli, Ingrid, cast
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Ampofo, Kwabena, cast
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Annan, Steve, cast
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Bandoria, Lynn, cast
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Carter, Scott, cast
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Platt, Oliver, cast
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