<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>
Overview
Syllabus
- 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
Taught by
Richard Bell
