Africans in America; Interview with Margaret Washington, Associate Professor of History, Cornell University. 3 of 4 : Brotherly Love
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Margaret Washington is interviewed about the significance of Philadelphia in the 1790s, Richard Allen, the life of Jarena Lee and her spiritual conversion, Thomas Jefferson and modern racism, black labor at Monticello, the impact of the cotton gin, the end of the Atlantic slave trade, Gabriel's Rebellion, formation of the African Methodist Episcopal church, Denmark Vesey, Nat Turner, Africans as God's chosen people.
