American Experience: The Abolitionists DVD

Comments about PBS American Experience: The Abolitionists DVD:

I thought the program was very informative and beautifully shot. Performances were well done and captured the period and qualities of those focused on and the shameful period in our country's history. An important program and educational tool,which I would encourage all educators and citizens to partake of to appreciate the progress that's been made and the work that needs to continue for the betterment of all cultures and societies.

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I too was brought to tears by this production. Thank you and Thank you for a job well done.

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This is the stuff I never understood in history class during the seventh grade. Mere dates and places and raw facts obscured the real stories.

Every American needs to know this story. What really led up to the Civil War. We are still today living with the effects of slavery and that war, over 150 years later.

I wouldn't say this is the most thorough documentary on the subject, as it's the only one I've ever seen. I had heard all the names before: John Brown, Frederick Douglass, Harriet Beecher Stowe, William Lloyd Garrison. I knew the cotton gin was invented by Eli Whitney. Now I have a much better appreciation and understanding of how it all fits together.

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The Abolitionists is very informative and moving. However, it have been better if the secularism of key abolitionists, such as William Lloyd Garrison, had been more clearly stated. Religion was used to both defend and attack slavery. Humanism/secularism stood against slavery.

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This documentary like The West continued to bring tears to my eyes. I am of African and Native American ancestry and the voice of peace under cruel and evil tyranny is vital message to all those who follow Christ. Any other attitude is a lie.