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Title Africans in America. Part 4, Judgment day. Interview with James Horton, Benjamin Banneker Professor of American Studies and History, George Washington University / [produced by WGBH]
Published Boston, MA : WGBH Educational Foundation, [1998]

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Description 1 online resource (82 min.)
Summary James Horton is interviewed about life in 1830 in Washington DC, the vulnerability of free blacks, Solomon Northup, petitions against slavery, the Amistad case, harassment of abolitionists, rise of free black communities, Fugitive Slave Act of 1850, Anthony Burns, how slavery has shaped American culture, Bleeding Kansas, John Brown, Dangerfield Newby, Harpers Ferry, abolitionist movement becomes violent, slavery as an embarrassment in front of the world, 18th century African Burial Ground in New York City, resistance to maintain human dignity
Notes Title from resource description page (viewed September 12, 2017)
Performer Interviewee: James Horton
Notes In English
Subject Horton, James Oliver -- Interviews
SUBJECT Horton, James Oliver. fast (OCoLC)fst01438361
Subject African Americans -- History -- To 1863.
Slavery -- United States -- Public opinion
Antislavery movements -- United States -- History -- 19th century
Slavery -- United States -- History -- 19th century
Abolitionists -- United States -- History -- 19th century
Abolitionists.
African Americans.
Antislavery movements.
Slavery.
Slavery -- Public opinion.
United States.
Genre/Form interviews.
History.
Interviews.
Unedited footage.
Interviews.
Unedited footage.
Interviews.
Form Streaming video
Author Smith, Llewellyn, producer, director
Horton, James Oliver, interviewee
WGBH (Television station : Boston, Mass.), production company.