Title Africans in America. Part 4, Judgment day. Interview with Eric Foner, professor of history, Columbia University / [produced by WGBH]

Published Boston, MA : WGBH Educational Foundation, [1998]

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Description 1 online resource (65 min.) Summary Eric Foner is interviewed about the Age of Jackson, slavery as political power, slavery and American progress, economic power of cotton, thousands of black people sold south to cotton plantations, end of the Atlantic slave trade, Constitutional Convention and three fifths clause, David Walker's Appeal and the abolitionist movement in the 1830s, northern opposition to abolition, the Amistad case, the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850, Anthony Burns, moral suasion, Bleeding Kansas, the Dred Scott Decision, John Brown, Legacy of slavery Notes Title from resource description page (viewed September 12, 2017) Performer Interviewee: Eric Foner Notes In English Subject Foner, Eric, 1943- -- Interviews SUBJECT Foner, Eric, 1943- fast (OCoLC)fst00051383 Subject African Americans -- History -- To 1863. Slavery -- United States -- History -- 19th century Antislavery movements -- United States -- History -- 19th century Slavery -- Economic aspects -- United States -- History -- 19th century African Americans. Antislavery movements. Slavery. Slavery -- Economic aspects. War -- Causes. SUBJECT United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Causes. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140219 Subject United States. Genre/Form interviews. History. Interviews. Unedited footage. Interviews. Unedited footage. Interviews. Form Streaming video Author Smith, Llewellyn, producer, director Foner, Eric, 1943- interviewee. WGBH (Television station : Boston, Mass.), production company.

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