Africans in America; Interview with David Blight, Professor of History and Black Studies, Amherst College. 4 of 4 : Judgment Day
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David Blight is interviewed about David Walker's appeal for insurrection in 1829, William Lloyd Garrison and moral suasion, burning of Pennsylvania Hall in 1838 and attacks on abolitiionists, black communities in the north and racism, Vigilance Committees, slave narratives and Uncle Tom's Cabin, Fugitive Slave law of 1850, Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854, the Free Soil Movement, the Dred Scott decision, insurrection fears, John Brown and Frederick Douglass, raid on Harper's Ferry, election of Lincoln and secession movement.