Africans in America. Part 4, Judgment day. Interview with Eric Foner, professor of history, Columbia University /

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...

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Other Authors: Smith, Llewellyn (Producer, Director)
Format: Video
Language:English
Language Notes:In English.
Published: Boston, MA : WGBH Educational Foundation, [1998]
Series:Academic Video Online
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Online Access:Connect to this streaming video (Alexander Street Press)
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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.
Item Description:Title from resource description page (viewed September 12, 2017).
Physical Description:1 online resource (65 min.)
Playing Time:01:05:19