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American Experience  Abolitionist Allies Fall Out

After the Fugitive Slave Law of 1850, abolition takes on a new urgency for enslaved people Details

 

Program: American Experience

Episode: Abolitionist Allies Fall Out

After the Fugitive Slave Law of 1850, the abolition of slavery takes on a new urgency for formerly enslaved people. Frederick Douglass and William Lloyd Garrison no longer see eye to eye, and they have a falling out. "Douglass has had that experience. Garrison is a white man in a white man's America."

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Duration: (2:54)
Premiere Date: 01/08/2013
Episode Expires: Never
TV Rating: NR


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