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Africans in America. Part 4, Judgment day. Interview with William Scarborough, professor of history, University of Southern Mississippi at Hattiesburg / [produced by WGBH].
- Format:
- Video
- Series:
- Academic Video Online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Scarborough, William Kauffman--Interviews.
- Scarborough, William Kauffman.
- African Americans--History--To 1863.
- African Americans.
- Slavery--United States--History--19th century.
- Slavery.
- Antislavery movements--United States--History--19th century.
- Antislavery movements.
- Enslaved persons--Emancipation--United States.
- Enslaved persons.
- United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Causes.
- United States.
- Genre:
- Interviews.
- Unedited footage.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (59 minutes)
- Place of Publication:
- Boston, MA : WGBH Educational Foundation, [1998]
- Language Note:
- In English.
- System Details:
- data file
- 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.
- Participant:
- Interviewee: William Scarborough.
- Notes:
- Title from resource description page (viewed September 12, 2017).
- OCLC:
- 1009103720
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