The Abolitionists: 1820s-1838
American Experience · Season 25 · Episode 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.
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Season
25
Episode
1
Air Date
08/Jan/2013
Air Time
20:00
Runtime
55 min
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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.
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