PBS/WETA: THE ABOLITIONISTS, Part 1 and 2 today, 3-5 EDT: Part 3 next Tues. 8 EDT
The American Experience 'The Abolitionists' Three-Part Series (2013) now showing on PBS and available online.
PBS/WETA today 3-5 PM ET:
Part One: 1820s-1838. Activists take an interest in outlawing slavery although violence raises doubts about the movement.
Part Two: 1838-1854. Frederick Douglass escapes slavery and joins Wm. Lloyd Garrison in the Anti-Slavery Movement.
Part Three: Conclusion, next Tuesday, July 14, PBS/WETA.
*LINK: PBS, American Experience, 'The Abolitionists' Features, Bonus VIDEO, Douglass Publishes "The North Star"
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/bonus-video/abolitionists-douglass-publishes-north-star/
New York Times, "Well Before Lincoln, Enemies of Slavery: 'The Abolitionists' on PBS", by N. Genzlinger, Jan. 7, 2013
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/08/arts/television/the-abolitionists-on-pbs-about-advocates-before-lincoln.html
