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America's Long Struggle against Slavery, Episode 3

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videorecording

America's Long Struggle against Slavery

Originally produced by The Great Courses in 2020

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The American slave trade began in Africa. It is an uncomfortable truth that African rulers and merchants played a hand in supplying slaves to Europeans. However, a look at the African continent also shows us the first strategies of resistance, from defensively trying to elude capture to offensive efforts to get away from the hellish confinement of European forts

live action