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1 online resource (85 min.) |
| Summary |
Douglas Egerton is interviewed about the contradictions of equality and freedom, Thomas Jefferson as a slave owner and believing Africans were inferior, the revolution in Haiti, Toussaint L'Ouverture, Gabriel's Rebellion, Gabriel's Conspiracy, the ban on importation of African slaves, the expansion of cotton plantations, the black support for the American Colonization Society, Denmark Vesey, Charleston African Church, Morris Brown, the hanging of Vesey's followers, Thomas Jefferson's death, the southern view of slavery as a "positive good." |
| Notes |
Title from resource description page (viewed September 12, 2017) |
| Performer |
Interviewee: Douglas Egerton |
| Notes |
In English |
| Subject |
Egerton, Douglas R. -- Interviews
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African Americans -- History -- To 1863.
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Slavery -- United States -- History -- 19th century
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African Americans -- Civil rights -- History -- 19th century
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African Americans.
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African Americans -- Civil rights.
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Slavery.
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United States.
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interviews.
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History.
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Interviews.
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Unedited footage.
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Interviews.
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Unedited footage.
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Interviews.
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Streaming video
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| Author |
Jones, Jacquie, 1965- producer
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Egerton, Douglas R., interviewee
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WGBH (Television station : Boston, Mass.), production company
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