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American Experience
The Abolitionists
Season 25
Episode 12
The story of how abolitionist allies William Lloyd Garrison, Frederick Douglass, Harriet Beecher Stowe, John Brown and Angelina Grimke turned a despised fringe movement against chattel slavery into a force that literally changed the nation.
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Part of the award-winning The Presidents collection.