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Lectures in History

Early 1800s Abolition & Pro-Slavery Movements

Lectures in History

C-SPAN

History, Politics, News

4.1696 Ratings

🗓️ 9 March 2019

⏱️ 53 minutes

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University of Alabama professor Joshua Rothman teaches a class on abolition and pro-slavery movements in the early 1800s. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Next, on lectures in history, University of Alabama professor Joshua Rothman teaches a class on abolition and pro-slavery movements in the early 1800s.

1:07.4

He highlights the way that both sides used printing presses and mailing literature to spread their ideas.

1:13.5

His class is about 50 minutes.

1:18.3

So today we're going to talk about anti-slavery, the emergence of a new kind of anti-slavery,

1:24.8

and the reaction to that new kind of anti-slavery.

1:29.3

We sort of haven't looked at opposition to slavery in a while, but in the generation or two

1:35.5

after the ratification of the Constitution, it was not unusual for both northerners

1:41.4

to talk about the morality of slavery.

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