Tập
American Experience: Episode 2
Tóm tắt
See how the activities of the five principals intersect and affect the anti-slavery movement.
Chi tiết
- Phim bộ
- American Experience
- Mùa
- Mùa 25
- Tập
- Tập 2
- Ngày phát sóng
- 2013-01-15
- Thời lượng
- 55 min
Thông tin tập
Episode 2 là tập 2 trong Season 25 của American Experience. Tập này phát sóng ngày 2013-01-15. Thời lượng là 55 min.
Tập trước / tập sau
Tập 1
The story of how abolitionist allies William Lloyd Garrison, Frederick Douglass, Harriet Beecher Stowe, John Brown and Angelina Grimke turned a despised fringe movement against chattel slavery into a force that literally changed the nation.
Tập 3
Examine the forces leading to war and to the ratification of the Thirteenth Amendment.
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