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Title Africans in America. Part 4, Judgment day. Interview with William Scarborough, professor of history, University of Southern Mississippi at Hattiesburg / [produced by WGBH]
Published Boston, MA : WGBH Educational Foundation, [1998]

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Description 1 online resource (59 min.)
Summary William Scarborough is interviewed about slavery as central institution in the south, antebellum slavery and emancipation process, slavery and the Constitution, David Walker's appeal, Nat Turner insurrection, the South and the abolitionist movement, curtailment of civil liberties, slavery and perceptions of menial labor, Christian belief that the Bible sanctioned slavery, Native American tribes displaced by plantations, expansion of slavery into southwest and sale of slaves for huge profits, election of Abraham Lincoln, secession and the Civil War, legacy of slavery
Notes Title from resource description page (viewed September 12, 2017)
Performer Interviewee: William Scarborough
Notes In English
Subject Scarborough, William Kauffman -- Interviews
African Americans -- History -- To 1863.
Slavery -- United States -- History -- 19th century
Antislavery movements -- United States -- History -- 19th century
Enslaved persons -- Emancipation -- United States
African Americans.
Antislavery movements.
Slavery.
Slaves -- Emancipation.
War -- Causes.
SUBJECT United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Causes. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140219
Subject United States.
Genre/Form interviews.
History.
Interviews.
Unedited footage.
Interviews.
Unedited footage.
Interviews.
Form Streaming video
Author Smith, Llewellyn, producer, director
Scarborough, William Kauffman, interviewee
WGBH (Television station : Boston, Mass.), production company.