Bearing Witness: American Slavery As It Is
Season 25
Episode 12
About the Episode
The 1839 book 'American Slavery As It Is: Testimony of a Thousand Witnesses', written by Theodore Weld, his wife Angelina Grimke, and her sister Sarah Grimke, documented slavery's horrors.
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Beautiful, intimate photographs of a society in the crosshairs of white supremacy.2:58 -
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