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The movement to abolish slavery took root in Pennsylvania, from the Quaker principles of its early settlers to the Free African Society and the fiery activism of John Brown. Amidst heated debates and societal unrest, many Pennsylvanians opposed...

Clint Smith teaches you about one of the most famous writers, orators, and advocates of the 19th century, Frederick Douglass. Douglass was born in slavery, escaped to the North, and became one of the most influential people of his time. Douglass...

This video was sponsored by Imperator: Rome. You can support our channel by buying this game via this link: https://store.steampowered.com/app/859580/Imperator_Rome/ We are continuing our new animated historical documentary series on the...

A graduate of San Francisco State University, Daniel's archaeological expertise is on the pre- and proto-historic periods of San Francisco. His Masters thesis was on the pre-histoy and history of Lake Merced, and the foundation of the Past...

One of the ways that the US Constitution baked the institution of slavery into the very core of the new United States was through the fugitive slave clause. The clause required that people who escaped slavery be returned to their enslavers...