Williamsburg Regional Library

America's Long Struggle against Slavery, Episode 26

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videorecording

America's Long Struggle against Slavery

electronic resource

Originally produced by The Great Courses in 2020

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From the beginning of the war, enslaved people understood it to be a war of freedom, a war to destroy American slavery. But President Lincoln's charge was simply to preserve the union. Find out how this tension played out on plantations and battlefields, in Congress and in the White House, during the Civil War

live action