Up From Slavery

2011

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 upo...

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Documentary

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Coby Batty

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Thumbnail for Part One - 1619 Virginia - The First African Slaves arrive Season 1 Episode 1

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Part One - 1619 Virginia - The First African Slaves arrive

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Thumbnail for Part Two - 18th Century Colonial America and Slavery under the rule of the British Empire Season 1 Episode 2

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Part Two - 18th Century Colonial America and Slavery under the rule of the British Empire

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Part Three - Slavery in the United States after the Revolution

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Part Four - Nat Turners Rebellion, 1831

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Thumbnail for Part Five - Abolition from the North grows Season 1 Episode 5

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Part Five - Abolition from the North grows

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Part Six - The Civil War. Emancipation Proclamation

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Part Seven - Aftermath of the Civil War and new freedom

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