Meet the heroes, martyrs and characters of the American abolitionist movement with the Abolition News Network.
What is slavery? Learn from some of the most prominent people involved in the slavery era.
Meet the heroes, martyrs and characters of the American abolitionist movement with the Abolition News Network.
Here, Harriet Tubman at home somewhere in Delaware talks about her life as a conductor and her biography. No textbooks needed.
Meet the heroes, martyrs and characters of the American abolitionist movement with the Abolition News Network.
A.N.N. takes you to their homes. Here Levi Coffin, Underground station-master with his wife Catharine in Fountain City, Indiana describes his underground operation.
Meet the heroes, martyrs and characters of the American abolitionist movement with the Abolition News Network.
A.N.N. anchorman, Edward Softwater shows us the typical slave quarters somewhere in the South: no windows, slaves slept on the floor with a single blanket.
Meet the heroes, martyrs and characters of the American abolitionist movement with the Abolition News Network.
Fredrick Douglass tells us about his early life as a slave in the 1820s in the ANN studio. By time travel this is routine.
Meet the heroes, martyrs and characters of the American abolitionist movement with the Abolition News Network.
Sojourner Truth describes her life as an abolitionist speaker to ANN anchor Emily Summerfield at her home in Battlecreek Michigan in 1883.
Meet the heroes, martyrs and characters of the American abolitionist movement with the Abolition News Network.
Largest Slave Trader in the U.S.A in the 1840s, Isaac Franklin talks about this being the most important business of the American people, selling human flesh.
Meet the heroes, martyrs and characters of the American abolitionist movement with the Abolition News Network.
The first ex-slave, Olaudah Equiano, who wrote the first narrative on the slave trade and coming to the West Indies from Africa in 1791.
Series Details:
- 8 DVDs
- 94 interviews
- Famous Characters Explain Events
- Ordinary People Tell Extraordinary Stories
- Insights
- Teacher’s Guide Book
- Provocative Questions
Watch and learn as network news anchors interview President Abraham Lincoln; Harriet Beecher Stowe, author of Uncle Tom’s Cabin; Dred Scott, a slave who sued for his freedom; Harriet Tubman, an escaped slave and Union Army spy; and around 100 other characters for and against the abolitionist movement.
Combining modern newsroom interview techniques with actual testimony from primary and secondary historical sources, this series breathes new life into the subject of slavery. There is no lecturer or teacher, history’s characters tell their stories, in their own words.
The project has been meticulously researched and adapted for presentation in this format by its creator Steve Edison.