Slavery and the Making of America Seeds of Destruction (Slavery and the Making of America, Disc 3)
Type
Audio/Visual
Authors
UPC
739815002854
Category
DVD: Nonfiction
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Publication Year
2005
Publisher
PBS, United States
Volume
3
Duration
60 minutes
Series Name
Abstract
The third hour looks at the period from 1800 through the start of the Civil War when slavery saw an enormous expansion and entered its final decades. As the nation expanded west, the question of slavery became the overriding political issue. These years saw an increasingly militant abolitionist movement and a widening rift between the North--which had largely outlawed slavery but still reaped the vast economic benefits of the system--and the South, now home to millions of enslaved black men, women and children. By 1860, every attempt at striking and agreement had failed including the Missouri Compromise and the draconian Fugitive Slave Law of 1850 effectively splitting the Union apart.
Number of Copies
1
