America’s Long Struggle against Slavery

<p>Witness the centuries-long fight against the institution of slavery from the western coast of Africa to the plantations and battlefields of America.</p>

• By This Professor
• 01: Understanding the Fight against Slavery
• 02: Origins of Slavery in the British Empire
• 03: Opposing the African Slave Trade
• 04: Shipboard Rebellion and Resistance
• 05: A Free Black Family in Colonial Virginia
• 06: Quakers and Puritans Join the Fight
• 07: Thomas Thistlewood’s Plantation Revolution
• 08: Phibbah Thistlewood: Sleeping with the Enemy
• 09: Slave Insurrections in the 18th Century
• 10: Maroons: Those Who Escaped
• 11: Three Quaker Activists
• 12: Slavery in the War for Independence
• 13: Taking Slavery to Court
• 14: Charles Pinckney’s Counterrevolution
• 15: The Haitian Revolution
• 16: Founding the Free Black Churches
• 17: The Second Middle Passage
• 18: "Our Native Country": Opposing Colonization
• 19: David Walker, Nat Turner, and Black Immediatism
• 20: William Lloyd Garrison's "Thousand Witnesses"
• 21: Surviving King Cotton
• 22: Roger Taney: Nationalizing Slavery
• 23: Frederick Douglass and Aggressive Abolition
• 24: Harriet Beecher Stowe and Harriet Tubman
• 25: The Black Heart of John Brown
• 26: The Slaves' Experience of the Civil War
• 27: US Colored Troops: Those Who Served
• 28: Fighting Slavery after Emancipation
• 29: Slavery by Another Name
• 30: Fighting Modern Slavery