African-American Experience Video

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• Free Blacks in the Antebellum North, by Michael Johnson, Ph.D., The Johns Hopkins University.
• Abraham Lincoln as an Historical Figure, by Michael Johnson, Ph.D., The Johns Hopkins University.
• Lincoln's Ideas About Race, by Michael Johnson, Ph.D., The Johns Hopkins University.
• Abraham Lincoln and the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854, by Michael Johnson, Ph.D., The Johns Hopkins University.
• The Formation of Anti-Slavery Societies in the Antebellum North, by Julie Roy Jeffrey, Ph.D., Goucher College.
• Abolitionism and Women's Changing Public Roles, by Julie Roy Jeffrey, Ph.D., Goucher College.
• Abraham Lincoln and the Kansas-Nebraska Act, by James O. Horton, Ph.D., George Washington University.
• Abolitionism in Antebellum Illinois, by James O. Horton, Ph.D., George Washington University.
• Slavery and the Sectional Crisis of the 1850, by James O. Horton, Ph.D., George Washington University.
• Abraham Lincoln's Changing Attitude Towards Slavery, by James O. Horton, Ph.D., George Washington University.
• Abraham Lincoln and the African-American Colonization Movement, by James O. Horton, Ph.D., George Washington University.
• Free Blacks in the Antebellum North, by James O. Horton, Ph.D., George Washington University.
• The Fugitive Slave Law of 1850, by James O. Horton, Ph.D., George Washington University.
• African-Americans and Black Codes in the Antebellum North, by James O. Horton, Ph.D., George Washington University.
• Anti-Slavery and the Origins of the American Women's Rights Movement, by Kathryn Kish Sklar, Ph.D., SUNY - Binghamton.
• Free Black Women in the Anti-Slavery Movement, by Kathryn Kish Sklar, Ph.D., SUNY - Binghamton.
• Lincoln and Abolitionism, by Eric Foner, Ph.D., Columbia University.
• Frontier Settlement and the Vision of an All-White Society, by Eric Foner, Ph.D., Columbia University.
• Abraham Lincoln and the Problem of Race and Slavery, by Eric Foner, Ph.D., Columbia University.
• Abraham Lincoln and the Politics of Race, by Eric Foner, Ph.D., Columbia University.
• Fugitive Slaves and the Compromise of 1850, by Eric Foner, Ph.D., Columbia University.
• The Dred Scott Decision of 1857, by Eric Foner, Ph.D., Columbia University.
• The Dred Scott Decision and National Politics, by Eric Foner, Ph.D., Columbia University.
• Abraham Lincoln and the Roots of the Abolitionist Movement, by Eric Foner, Ph.D., Columbia University.
• Free Blacks, Colonization, and the Roots of Abolitionism, by Eric Foner, Ph.D., Columbia University.
• Abraham Lincoln's Attitude Toward Race and Slavery, by Gerald Prokopowicz, Ph.D., Lincoln Museum, Fort Wayne, IN.
• The Law of Slavery, by Charles McCurdy, Ph.D., University of Virginia.
• The Dred Scott Case, Part 1: Background, by Charles McCurdy, Ph.D., University of Virginia.
• The Dred Scott Case, Part 2: Taney's Decision, by Charles McCurdy, Ph.D., University of Virginia.
• Southerners on the Frontier, by Edward L. Ayers, Ph.D., University of Virginia.
• The Movement of African-American Colonization, by Edward L. Ayers, Ph.D., University of Virginia.