Bearing Witness: American Slavery As It Is
Clip: Season 25 Episode 12 | 1m 12s
The 1839 book 'American Slavery As It Is: Testimony of a Thousand Witnesses', written by Theodore Weld, his wife Angelina Grimke, and her sister Sarah Grimke, documented slavery's horrors.
Aired: 01/08/13 |
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The Emancipation Proclamation and the Civil War
Clip: S25 Ep12 | 1m 39s
John Brown Puts His Accusers on Trial
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Clip: S25 Ep12 | 1m 46s
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The Chinese Six Companies
On May 28, 1900, San Francisco policemen formed a perimeter around Chinatown as officials diagnosed bubonic plague in the neighborhood and wanted to quarantine the nearly 20,000 residents. As tensions flared, an influential group of merchants known as the Chinese Six Companies sprang into action.
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