Slavers, Abolitionists, and a House Divided - US History, Part 5 | Full History Documentary

Since its founding, the United States grappled with the issue of slavery. For the next eighty years since it first declared that “all men are created equal,” the nations’ politicians argued, debated, and even came to blows with each other over the future of slavery as the nation developed and expanded westward. As a result, the fight to preserve slavery, or to abolish it outright, threatened to fracture the Union and erupt into the Civil War.

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Sources/Further Reading:
- Franklin, John (1967). "From Slavery to Freedom: A History of Negro Americans (Third Edition)." Amerind Publishing, New Delhi.
- Howe, David (2007). "What Hath God Wrought: The Transformation of America, 1815-1848," Oxford University Press, New York City.
- McPherson, James (1988). "Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era." Oxford University Press, New York City.
- Wood, Gordon (2009). "Empire of Liberty: A History of the Early Republic, 1789–1815." Oxford University Press, Oxford.

Timestamps:
00:00 - Intro
00:41 - PART 1 - SLAVERY IN THE NEW REPUBLIC
00:51 - Early Abolition Movements
02:54 - Slavery at the Constitutional Convention
04:37 - Closing the Slave Trade and the Fugitive Slave Act
06:40 - The Cotton Gin

09:23 - PART 2 - A BID FOR FREEDOM
09:33 - Gabriel’s and Vesey’s Plots
11:37 - Nat Turner’s Rebellion
13:06 - African Colonization Society and Liberia
14:58 - The Amistad
16:51 - The Underground Railroad

18:48 - PART 3 - WESTWARD EXPANSION & SECTIONALISM
18:58 - The Missouri Compromise
21:09 - The Nullification Crisis
23:15 - Gag Rule
25:08 - Texas, the Mexican-American War, and the Wilmot Proviso
27:22 - The Compromise of 1850

29:24 - PART 4 - PUSH COMES TO SHOVE
29:34 - Fugitive Slave Act and Uncle Tom’s Cabin
31:15 - Anthony Burns & the Kansas-Nebraska Act
33:14 - Ostend Manifesto
34:44 - Bleeding Kansas
38:09 - The Dred Scott Decision

40:51 - PART 5 - DISUNION!
41:01 - Lincoln-Douglas Debates
42:29 - John Brown’s Raid on Harpers Ferry
44:09 - Election of 1860
46:09 - The South Secedes
48:21 - Battle of Fort Sumter

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