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Slavery and the Making of America

Seeds of Destruction (Season 1, Episode 3)
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One by one the Northern states, led by Vermont in 1777, adopted laws to abolish and phase out slavery. Simultaneously, slavery in the Southern United States entered the period of its greatest expansion. Episode three, which starts at the ...See moreOne by one the Northern states, led by Vermont in 1777, adopted laws to abolish and phase out slavery. Simultaneously, slavery in the Southern United States entered the period of its greatest expansion. Episode three, which starts at the beginning of the 1800s, examines slavery's increasing divisiveness in America as the nation develops westward and cotton replaces tobacco as the country's most valuable crop. The episode weaves national events through the personal histories of two African American slaves -- Harriet Jacobs and Louis Hughes -- who not only managed to escape bondage, but also exposed the horrific realities of the slave experience in autobiographical narratives. These and other stories of physical, psychological, and sexual exploitation fed the fires of a reinvigorated abolitionist movement. With a diverse membership comprised Watch a preview of men and women, blacks and whites, and led by figures including Frederick Douglass, Sojourner Truth, and Amy Post, abolitionist sentiment gathered strength in the North, contributing to the widening fissure and imminent break-up of the nation. Written by PBS See less
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Gloria Alexander
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Michael Allen
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Norval Allen
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Tristan Allen
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Phoebe Bailey
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Pindamon Bailey-Brown
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Mary Lou Baldi
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Danielle Banks
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Sherry Bearden
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Seaun Carlo Boseda
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Briana Branche
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Art Brinson
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Ken Brown
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Montez Brown
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Channell Bryant
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Milton Bryant
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Franklin Bumpers
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Herman Cabarrus
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Hilary Cabarrus
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Kevin Cabarrus
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Everlena Carter
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Louis L. Carter
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Daniel Citron
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Craig Cobb
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Joan Collins
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Cedric Credit
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Aleshia Dennis
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Larry Earl
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Tommy Tye Ellerbe
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Michael Everett
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Stephon Fleming
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Krystopher Fletcher
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Morgan Freeman
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Yolanda M. Gray
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Jermaine A. Green
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Heather Hansen
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Charles Hawley
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Karen M. Hayes
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Bruce Hoover
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Kamil Hurdle
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Malik Hurdle
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Jamar Johnson
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Sam Johnson
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Brandon Valley Jones
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Cedric Kinds
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Matthew Cot Lancaster
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Morgan W. Lanier
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Mary V. Lassite
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Phillip Leigh
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Catherine Lewis
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Carl Lumbly
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Raskeen Mallory
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Kiewun J. Martin
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William Stacey McCarty
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Scott Morrison
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Jordan Murphy
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Julien Murphy
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Nikki O'Dell
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Richard D. Patton
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Don Pentz
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Trevon Phelps
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Willis Phelps
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Marie L. Pierce
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Henry Pillow
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Marianna Pirrung
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Daphne Reid
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Shanika Rhodes
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Kaye F. Roberts
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Dominique Ross
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Nadia Ross
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Isaac Showell
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Jessica Silva
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Tom Sklar
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Carlo Smith
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Marge Soper
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Cornell Stewart
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Joshua Swain
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Ariana C. Sykes
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Linwood Taylor
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