US History: A Nation Enslaved

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Contains Resource discusses the topic of slavery in the United States.

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US History: A Nation Enslaved

In this video, Charles Pace, Professor of Anthropology and American Studies, explains how Frederick Douglass’s writings helped counteract Southern propaganda about slavery as a "civilizing" institution.

This video segment is from the GED Connection Themes in U.S. History video.

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Beginning in the 1600s, thousands of Africans were kidnapped and brought in crowded ships to America. Americans in favor of slavery claimed it was the law of nature for the “strong” to rule the “weak.” People against slavery, called abolitionists, argued that slavery was unnatural and wrong. Propaganda was used both to support and to condemn slavery in the national debate between northern and southern Americans.

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Some people say that if we don’t understand history, we are doomed to repeat it. Do you agree with this idea? Why or why not?
Why is this kind of historical information important?
How have major events, periods, and trends (the Iraq war, the Great Depression, the civil rights movement, etc.) affected your own life and family?
What are some examples of propaganda you see every day?

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