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The Cause.
- Format:
- Video
- Author/Creator:
- Ken Burns, author.
- Series:
- Academic Video Online
- Ken Burns's The Civil War ; 1
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Davis, Jefferson,.
- Grant, Ulysses Simpson,.
- Lincoln, Abraham,.
- Slavery.
- Civil War (1860-1865).
- Civil war.
- Secession.
- U.S. Civil War, 1861-1865.
- District of Columbia.
- Manassas, VA.
- South Carolina.
- 19547.
- Local Subjects:
- Davis, Jefferson,.
- Grant, Ulysses Simpson,.
- Lincoln, Abraham,.
- Slavery.
- Civil War (1860-1865).
- Civil war.
- Secession.
- U.S. Civil War, 1861-1865.
- District of Columbia.
- Manassas, VA.
- South Carolina.
- 19547.
- Genre:
- Documentary
- Film:Documentary
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (175 minutes)
- Place of Publication:
- Arlington, VA : Public Broadcasting Service, 1990.
- Language Note:
- In English.
- Original language in English.
- System Details:
- video file
- Summary:
- Beginning with a searing indictment of slavery, this first episode of Ken Burns's The Civil War dramatically evokes the causes of the war, from the Cotton Kingdom of the South to the northern abolitionists who opposed it. Here are the burning questions of Union and States' rights, John Brown at Harper's Ferry, the election of Abraham Lincoln in 1860, the firing on Fort Sumter and the jubilant rush to arms on both sides. Along the way the series' major figures are introduced: Abraham Lincoln, Frederick Douglass, Robert E. Lee, Ulysses S. Grant and a host of lesser-known but equally vivid characters. The episode comes to a climax with the disastrous Union defeat at Manassas, Virginia, where both sides now learn it is to be a very long war.
- Notes:
- Title from resource description page (viewed December 12, 2018).
- OCLC:
- 677927680
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