Ronald Brown II, Keydron Dunn, D.L. Hopkins, Donzell Lewis, John Pagano, Ken Peebles

In 1860, as the American Experiment threatened to explode into a bloody civil war, there were as many as four hundred thousand slave-owners in the United States, and almost four million slaves. The nation was founded upon the idea that all men are created equal and endowed by their creator with the inalienable rights of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. The nation would pay a bloody cost for denying that right to more than twelve percent of its population

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Episode 1

1619 Virginia - The First African Slaves Arrive

Episode 2

18th Century Colonial America and Slavery Under the Rule of the British Empire

Episode 3

Slavery in the United States After the Revolution

Episode 4

Nat Turner's Rebellion

Episode 5

Abolition from the North Grows

Episode 6

The Civil War. Emancipation Proclamation

Episode 7

Aftermath of the Civil War and New "Freedom"