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Africa, It's Geography, People, and Products, and Africa, Its Place in Modern History
written by William Edward Burghardt Du Bois, 1868-1963; edited by Julius E. Haldeman (Girard, KS: Haldeman-Julius Publications, 1930), 63 page(s)
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written by William Edward Burghardt Du Bois, 1868-1963; edited by Julius E. Haldeman (Girard, KS: Haldeman-Julius Publications, 1930), 63 page(s)
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Black Studies
Content Type
Chapter
Contributor
Julius E. Haldeman
Author / Creator
William Edward Burghardt Du Bois, 1868-1963
Date Published / Released
1930
Publisher
Haldeman-Julius Publications
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Copyright © 2003 by the Estate of W.E.B. Du Bois
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Africans in America: Judgment Day (1831-1861), Interview with Quentin Snediker, Amistad project coordinator, Mystic Seaport Museum
directed by Llewellyn Smith, fl. 1987-2017; produced by Llewellyn Smith, fl. 1987-2017, WGBH Boston, in Africans in America: Judgment Day (1831-1861) (Boston, MA: WGBH Educational Foundation, 2017), 51 mins
Quentin Snediker is interviewed about the Amistad case of 1839, illegal slave trade in Cuba, Sengbe's revolt, Josiah Gibbs helping the Amistad captives, John Quincy Adams argument to free the captives and allow them to return to their homes. The slave trade in the 1850s, Captain William Corrie and The Wanderer.
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directed by Llewellyn Smith, fl. 1987-2017; produced by Llewellyn Smith, fl. 1987-2017, WGBH Boston, in Africans in America: Judgment Day (1831-1861) (Boston, MA: WGBH Educational Foundation, 2017), 51 mins
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Quentin Snediker is interviewed about the Amistad case of 1839, illegal slave trade in Cuba, Sengbe's revolt, Josiah Gibbs helping the Amistad captives, John Quincy Adams argument to free the captives and allow them to return to their homes. The slave trade in the 1850s, Captain William Corrie and The Wanderer.
Field of Study
Black Studies
Content Type
Interview
Contributor
Llewellyn Smith, fl. 1987-2017, WGBH Boston
Author / Creator
Llewellyn Smith, fl. 1987-2017
Date Published / Released
1998, 2017
Publisher
WGBH Educational Foundation
Series
Africans in America: Judgment Day (1831-1861)
Person Discussed
Josiah Willard Gibbs, 1790-1861, John Quincy Adams, 1767-1848
Topic / Theme
Conspiracies, International trade, Liberty, Slave revolts, Emancipation of slaves, Laws and legislation, Slave trade, Trade and commerce, Amistad Case, U.S. Supreme Court Decision, Washington, DC, March 9, 1841, Race and Gender, African Cubans, Americans, African Americans
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Africans in America: Judgment Day (1831-1861), Program Four, Interview with Eric Foner, Professor of History, Columbia University
directed by Llewellyn Smith, fl. 1987-2017; produced by Llewellyn Smith, fl. 1987-2017, WGBH Boston; interview by Llewellyn Smith, fl. 1987-2017, in Africans in America: Judgment Day (1831-1861), Program Four (Boston, MA: WGBH Educational Foundation, 2017), 1 hour 5 mins
Eric Foner is interviewed about the Age of Jackson, slavery as political power, slavery and American progress, economic power of cotton, thousands of black people sold south to cotton plantations, end of the Atlantic slave trade, Constitutional Convention and three fifths clause, David Walker's Appeal and the abol...
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directed by Llewellyn Smith, fl. 1987-2017; produced by Llewellyn Smith, fl. 1987-2017, WGBH Boston; interview by Llewellyn Smith, fl. 1987-2017, in Africans in America: Judgment Day (1831-1861), Program Four (Boston, MA: WGBH Educational Foundation, 2017), 1 hour 5 mins
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Eric Foner is interviewed about the Age of Jackson, slavery as political power, slavery and American progress, economic power of cotton, thousands of black people sold south to cotton plantations, end of the Atlantic slave trade, Constitutional Convention and three fifths clause, David Walker's Appeal and the abolitionist movement in the 1830s, northern opposition to abolition, the Amistad case, the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850, Anthony Burns, mora...
Eric Foner is interviewed about the Age of Jackson, slavery as political power, slavery and American progress, economic power of cotton, thousands of black people sold south to cotton plantations, end of the Atlantic slave trade, Constitutional Convention and three fifths clause, David Walker's Appeal and the abolitionist movement in the 1830s, northern opposition to abolition, the Amistad case, the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850, Anthony Burns, moral suasion, Bleeding Kansas, the Dred Scott Decision, John Brown, Legacy of slavery.
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Field of Study
Black Studies
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Interview
Contributor
Llewellyn Smith, fl. 1987-2017, WGBH Boston
Author / Creator
Llewellyn Smith, fl. 1987-2017
Date Published / Released
1998, 2017
Publisher
WGBH Educational Foundation
Series
Africans in America: Judgment Day (1831-1861)
Person Discussed
Eric Foner, 1943-, David Walker, 1785-1830, Anthony Burns, 1834-1862, John Brown, 1800-1859, Dred Scott, 1795-1858, Frederick Douglass, 1818-1895
Topic / Theme
Migration, Laws and legislation, Slave trade, Trade and commerce, Liberty, Cotton, Amistad Case, U.S. Supreme Court Decision, Washington, DC, March 9, 1841, Dred Scott Decision, 1857, Bleeding Kansas, 1854-1859, Fugitive Slave Act, U.S., September 18, 1850, Emancipation Proclamation, U.S., September 22, 1862, Harpers Ferry Raid, VA, October 16, 1859, Slave Trade Banned by Congress, U.S., January 1...
Migration, Laws and legislation, Slave trade, Trade and commerce, Liberty, Cotton, Amistad Case, U.S. Supreme Court Decision, Washington, DC, March 9, 1841, Dred Scott Decision, 1857, Bleeding Kansas, 1854-1859, Fugitive Slave Act, U.S., September 18, 1850, Emancipation Proclamation, U.S., September 22, 1862, Harpers Ferry Raid, VA, October 16, 1859, Slave Trade Banned by Congress, U.S., January 1, 1808, Eli Whitney Patents Cotton Gin, 1793, War and Violence, Migration and Diaspora, Trade and Commerce, Race and Gender, Political and Social Movements, Early National Era (1790–1828), Expansion & Sectionalism (1829–1859), Africans, English, Americans, African Americans, Industrialization and Western Global Hegemony (1750–1914)
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Africans in America: Judgment Day (1831-1861), Program Four, Interview with William Scarborough, Professor of History, University of Souther...
directed by Llewellyn Smith, fl. 1987-2017; produced by Llewellyn Smith, fl. 1987-2017, WGBH Boston; interview by Llewellyn Smith, fl. 1987-2017, in Africans in America: Judgment Day (1831-1861), Program Four (Boston, MA: WGBH Educational Foundation, 2017), 1 hour
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...
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directed by Llewellyn Smith, fl. 1987-2017; produced by Llewellyn Smith, fl. 1987-2017, WGBH Boston; interview by Llewellyn Smith, fl. 1987-2017, in Africans in America: Judgment Day (1831-1861), Program Four (Boston, MA: WGBH Educational Foundation, 2017), 1 hour
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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...
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.
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Field of Study
American History
Content Type
Interview
Contributor
Llewellyn Smith, fl. 1987-2017, WGBH Boston
Author / Creator
Llewellyn Smith, fl. 1987-2017
Date Published / Released
1998, 2017
Publisher
WGBH Educational Foundation
Series
Africans in America: Judgment Day (1831-1861)
Person Discussed
William K. Scarborough, 1933-, Nat Turner, 1800-1831, David Walker, 1785-1830, Abraham Lincoln, 1809-1865
Topic / Theme
Slave trade, Manumission of slaves, Plantation life, Laws and legislation, Slavery, Lincoln-Douglas Debates, 1858, Slavery and Abolition, 1776 - 1865, U.S. Civil War, 1861-1865, Trade and Commerce, Race and Gender, Political and Social Movements, Revolutionary Era (1765–1789), Early National Era (1790–1828), Expansion & Sectionalism (1829–1859), Civil War (1860–1865), American Indians, Ame...
Slave trade, Manumission of slaves, Plantation life, Laws and legislation, Slavery, Lincoln-Douglas Debates, 1858, Slavery and Abolition, 1776 - 1865, U.S. Civil War, 1861-1865, Trade and Commerce, Race and Gender, Political and Social Movements, Revolutionary Era (1765–1789), Early National Era (1790–1828), Expansion & Sectionalism (1829–1859), Civil War (1860–1865), American Indians, Americans, African Americans
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Africans in America: Judgment Day (1831-1861), Season 1, Episode 4, Interview with Nell Painter, Edwards Professor of American History, Prin...
directed by Llewellyn Smith, fl. 1987-2017; produced by Llewellyn Smith, fl. 1987-2017, WGBH Boston, in Africans in America: Judgment Day (1831-1861), Season 1, Episode 4 (Boston, MA: WGBH Educational Foundation, 2017), 54 mins
Nell Painter is interviewed about the expulsion of Native Americans to make room for plantations, Antebellum slavery, Sojourner Truth, citizenship gauged by whiteness, violence in slave society, auctioning of people, keeping slaves in line by threatening to sell them, families coming back together after emancipati...
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directed by Llewellyn Smith, fl. 1987-2017; produced by Llewellyn Smith, fl. 1987-2017, WGBH Boston, in Africans in America: Judgment Day (1831-1861), Season 1, Episode 4 (Boston, MA: WGBH Educational Foundation, 2017), 54 mins
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Nell Painter is interviewed about the expulsion of Native Americans to make room for plantations, Antebellum slavery, Sojourner Truth, citizenship gauged by whiteness, violence in slave society, auctioning of people, keeping slaves in line by threatening to sell them, families coming back together after emancipation, attachment, the legacy of slavery, ideas of race and class, "The Jealous Mistress" dynamic.
Field of Study
American History
Content Type
Interview
Contributor
Llewellyn Smith, fl. 1987-2017, WGBH Boston
Author / Creator
Llewellyn Smith, fl. 1987-2017
Date Published / Released
1998, 2017
Publisher
WGBH Educational Foundation
Series
Africans in America: Judgment Day (1831-1861)
Person Discussed
Nell Elizabeth Irvin, 1942-, Thomas Jefferson, 1743-1826, Sojourner Truth, 1797-1883
Topic / Theme
Race relations, Relationships, Slave auctions and sales, Corporal punishment, Slave trade, Trail of Tears, 1838-1839, Race and Gender, Political and Social Movements, War and Violence, Civil War (1860–1865), Expansion & Sectionalism (1829–1859), African Americans, Americans, American Indians
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American Experience: Freedom Riders, Part 3, Interview with Nicholas Katzenbach, 3 of 3
directed by Stanley Nelson, 1955-; produced by Stanley Nelson, 1955- and Laurens Grant, fl. 2003-2017, WGBH Boston and American Experience Films; interview by Stanley Nelson, 1955-, in American Experience: Freedom Riders, Part 3 (Boston, MA: WGBH Educational Foundation, 2017), 30 mins
Nicholas Katzenbach served as Deputy Attorney General from 1962 to 1965, under Attorney General Robert Kennedy. He served as Attorney General from 1965 to 1966 under President Johnson. Katzenbach assisted in drafting civil rights legislation and played an important role in fighting segregation in the South.
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directed by Stanley Nelson, 1955-; produced by Stanley Nelson, 1955- and Laurens Grant, fl. 2003-2017, WGBH Boston and American Experience Films; interview by Stanley Nelson, 1955-, in American Experience: Freedom Riders, Part 3 (Boston, MA: WGBH Educational Foundation, 2017), 30 mins
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Nicholas Katzenbach served as Deputy Attorney General from 1962 to 1965, under Attorney General Robert Kennedy. He served as Attorney General from 1965 to 1966 under President Johnson. Katzenbach assisted in drafting civil rights legislation and played an important role in fighting segregation in the South.
Field of Study
Black Studies
Content Type
Interview
Contributor
Stanley Nelson, 1955-, Laurens Grant, fl. 2003-2017, WGBH Boston, American Experience Films
Author / Creator
Stanley Nelson, 1955-
Date Published / Released
2010, 2017
Publisher
WGBH Educational Foundation
Series
American Experience: Freedom Riders
Person Discussed
Nicholas Katzenbach, 1922-2012, Robert F. Kennedy, 1925-1968, Martin Luther King, Jr., 1929-1968
Topic / Theme
Transportation industry, Social movements, Civil rights, Violence, Law enforcement, Crisis management, Freedom Rides, U.S. South, 1961, U.S. Civil Rights Movement, 1954-, War and Violence, Race and Gender, Political and Social Movements, The Sixties (1960–1974), African Americans, Americans, 20th Century in World History (1914--2000)
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American Experience: Reconstruction: The Second Civil War, Season 16, Episode 2, Second Interview with Edward L. Ayers, Historian, Universit...
directed by Llewellyn Smith, fl. 1987-2017; produced by Llewellyn Smith, fl. 1987-2017, WGBH Boston; interview by Llewellyn Smith, fl. 1987-2017, in American Experience: Reconstruction: The Second Civil War, Season 16, Episode 2 (Boston, MA: WGBH Educational Foundation, 2017), 44 mins
In the tumultuous years after the Civil War (1863-77), America grappled with how to rebuild itself, how to successfully bring the South back into the Union and how to bring former slaves into the life of the country. Ayers talks about the changing image of Robert E. Lee and the Lost Cause, women as guardians of th...
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directed by Llewellyn Smith, fl. 1987-2017; produced by Llewellyn Smith, fl. 1987-2017, WGBH Boston; interview by Llewellyn Smith, fl. 1987-2017, in American Experience: Reconstruction: The Second Civil War, Season 16, Episode 2 (Boston, MA: WGBH Educational Foundation, 2017), 44 mins
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In the tumultuous years after the Civil War (1863-77), America grappled with how to rebuild itself, how to successfully bring the South back into the Union and how to bring former slaves into the life of the country. Ayers talks about the changing image of Robert E. Lee and the Lost Cause, women as guardians of the Confederacy, Northern tourism in the south, Thomas Dixon and "Birth of a Nation", Reconstruction as a time of great possibility and d...
In the tumultuous years after the Civil War (1863-77), America grappled with how to rebuild itself, how to successfully bring the South back into the Union and how to bring former slaves into the life of the country. Ayers talks about the changing image of Robert E. Lee and the Lost Cause, women as guardians of the Confederacy, Northern tourism in the south, Thomas Dixon and "Birth of a Nation", Reconstruction as a time of great possibility and disappointment.
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Field of Study
American History
Content Type
Interview
Contributor
Llewellyn Smith, fl. 1987-2017, WGBH Boston
Author / Creator
Llewellyn Smith, fl. 1987-2017
Date Published / Released
2004, 2017
Publisher
WGBH Educational Foundation
Series
American Experience: Reconstruction: The Second Civil War
Person Discussed
Edward L. Ayers, 1953-, Thomas F. Dixon, 1864-1946, Jefferson Davis, 1808-1889, Robert Edward Lee, 1807-1870
Topic / Theme
Postwar reconstruction, Social movements, Tourism industry, Politics, Women, Reconstruction, US, 1865-1877, Race and Gender, Political and Social Movements, Reconstruction (1866–1876), Americans, Industrialization and Western Global Hegemony (1750–1914)
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American Experience: Reconstruction: The Second Civil War, Season 16, Episode 3, Interview with Eric Foner, Historian, Columbia University,...
directed by Elizabeth Deane, fl. 1983 and Patricia Garcia-Rios, fl. 1992-2017; produced by Elizabeth Deane, fl. 1983 and Patricia Garcia-Rios, fl. 1992-2017, WGBH Boston; interview by Patricia Garcia-Rios, fl. 1992-2017, in American Experience: Reconstruction: The Second Civil War, Season 16, Episode 3 (Boston, MA: WGBH Educational Foundation, 2017), 49 mins
In the tumultuous years after the Civil War (1863-77), America grappled with how to rebuild itself, how to successfully bring the South back into the Union and how to bring former slaves into the life of the country. Foner talks about expansion of industry, cotton economy, John R. Lynch elected to Congress, raisin...
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directed by Elizabeth Deane, fl. 1983 and Patricia Garcia-Rios, fl. 1992-2017; produced by Elizabeth Deane, fl. 1983 and Patricia Garcia-Rios, fl. 1992-2017, WGBH Boston; interview by Patricia Garcia-Rios, fl. 1992-2017, in American Experience: Reconstruction: The Second Civil War, Season 16, Episode 3 (Boston, MA: WGBH Educational Foundation, 2017), 49 mins
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In the tumultuous years after the Civil War (1863-77), America grappled with how to rebuild itself, how to successfully bring the South back into the Union and how to bring former slaves into the life of the country. Foner talks about expansion of industry, cotton economy, John R. Lynch elected to Congress, raising taxes to pay for social services, corruption, election of Ulysses S. Grant, violence and opposition to Reconstruction, the Ku Klux Kl...
In the tumultuous years after the Civil War (1863-77), America grappled with how to rebuild itself, how to successfully bring the South back into the Union and how to bring former slaves into the life of the country. Foner talks about expansion of industry, cotton economy, John R. Lynch elected to Congress, raising taxes to pay for social services, corruption, election of Ulysses S. Grant, violence and opposition to Reconstruction, the Ku Klux Klan and the White League, Amos Akerman and efforts against the Klan, the Fifteenth Amendment, sharecropping and overproduction of cotton.
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Field of Study
Black Studies
Content Type
Interview
Contributor
Elizabeth Deane, fl. 1983, Patricia Garcia-Rios, fl. 1992-2017, WGBH Boston
Author / Creator
Elizabeth Deane, fl. 1983, Patricia Garcia-Rios, fl. 1992-2017
Date Published / Released
2004, 2017
Publisher
WGBH Educational Foundation
Series
American Experience: Reconstruction: The Second Civil War
Person Discussed
Eric Foner, 1943-, Amos T. Akerman, 1821-1880, Ulysses Simpson Grant, 1822-1885, John Roy Lynch, 1847-1939
Topic / Theme
Long Civil Rights Movement, United States, Agrarian economy, Political violence, Economic development, Social policy, Industrialization, Politics, United States. Constitution, Fifteenth Amendment Ratified, March 30, 1870, Reconstruction, US, 1865-1877, War and Violence, Race and Gender, Political and Social Movements, Trade and Commerce, History, Politics & Policy, Reconstruction (1866–1876), Am...
Long Civil Rights Movement, United States, Agrarian economy, Political violence, Economic development, Social policy, Industrialization, Politics, United States. Constitution, Fifteenth Amendment Ratified, March 30, 1870, Reconstruction, US, 1865-1877, War and Violence, Race and Gender, Political and Social Movements, Trade and Commerce, History, Politics & Policy, Reconstruction (1866–1876), Americans, African Americans, Industrialization and Western Global Hegemony (1750–1914)
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The American Revolution: Pages From a Negro Worker's Notebook
written by James Boggs, 1919-1993 (New York, NY: Monthly Review, 1963), 92 page(s)
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written by James Boggs, 1919-1993 (New York, NY: Monthly Review, 1963), 92 page(s)
Field of Study
Black Studies
Content Type
Chapter
Author / Creator
James Boggs, 1919-1993
Date Published / Released
1963
Publisher
Monthly Review
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The Artificial White Man: Essays on Authenticity
written by Stanley Crouch, 1945- (New York, NY: Basic Books, 2004), 244 page(s)
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written by Stanley Crouch, 1945- (New York, NY: Basic Books, 2004), 244 page(s)
Field of Study
Black Studies
Content Type
Essay
Author / Creator
Stanley Crouch, 1945-
Date Published / Released
2004
Publisher
Basic Books
Copyright Message
Copyright © 2004 by Stanley Crouch. Reproduced by permission of Basic Books, a member of The Perseus Books Group.
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