AMERICAN EXPERIENCE The Abolitionists, Part One, Chapter 1

A peak at the first chapter of "The Abolitionists, Part 1", premiering January 8, 2013 at 9/8c on PBS. Learn more: www.pbs.org/wgb...
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[@Differindividual]

The actresses in this video did a really great job portraying their roles.

[@reimagine207]

My ancestors were Abolitionists! I'm proud!

[@imperialguardsman521]

My ancestors were abolitionists as well and later fought in the civil war for the Union. (My family are Methodists which is another reason why they're abolitionists.)

[@williamgraham6604]

My ancestors were not and I'm not neither proud or upset with their actions because I am my own person

[@saintmastajohn8092]

Reimagine thank you ma’am you got respect from black people i though being a abolitionist was bad so I goggled what it meant

[@dawnlovejoy8917]

Mine too, they were part of the underground railroad movement

[@saintmastajohn8092]

Dawn Lovejoy nice

[@DJLegends]

The whip scene is just terrifying.

[@HarmoneyS]

yes i jumped so much

[@mwand89]

It's all about Mr. Covey punishing Aunt Hester (as Douglass's aunt) for having an affair with a male slave when possessing her all for himself.

[@skateallday900]

Thumbs up if U.S. History class brought you here.

[@RaitonTime]

Depends on what History class you have.

[@TacoRising]

No, English 102 actually. The entire class is focused on Huck Finn so we're watching all these videos about the civil war and stuff. It's a weird class.

[@JoseMartinez-cy8oj]

Not quite, American Literature was the one that brought here

[@tyreekisdead]

hey

[@TheAltered]

Here

[@paulinekupo7029]

Looks to be a good history lesson for those of us who cannot imagine the injustice and cruelty of humankind, the brutal treatment of innocent men, women, and children to satisfy greed and power.

[@teelora1322]

The only one that can really understand what they went through as those of us that are colored and are still going through the punishment and the suffering in the end just of America's society because of the color of our skin

[@JENDALL714]

When I was young, I thought there was really an underground railroad and that a train was there waiting to take slaves to the north. I used to think, how the heck did they get that train underground?

[@crazysister01]

lol samee

[@AngelicTroubleMaker-LaVooDoo24]

🤣🤣 They made it seem that way in school. lol

[@pacmanwrecks355]

Yeaaa same. 🤣

[@amirag1155]

You sound like Porsha from the real housewives of Atlanta but she was already an adult and her grandfather ather marched and was close with martin Luther king so it was hilarious to see that moment on TV

[@JENDALL714]

​@@amirag1155 I always pictured it like the Big Thunder Mountain Railroad Ride and Splash Mountain at Disneyland, with the Slaves coming out the other side with their hands in the air, singing songs and praising Jesus! O LORD, our Lord, how excellent is Your name in all the earth........Also getting splashed with water when the train dips into the water at the end, which signifies being born again in freedom!

[@melissai4798]

God bless every single person who stood up for those in slavery, truly thankful that some people had the ability to think like a human being and consider how another person could be feeling in this disgusting and degrading slave trade... heartbreaking but so glad it is (hopefully) a thing of the past. And yes slave owners should definitely rot in hell... especially those who abused their positions 😞😞

[@allandavis8201]

melissa i unfortunately slavery is not a thing of the past, it is still ongoing today, only it is kept out of the public eye, and only rarely does it come into the public eye when individuals are caught out, strangely it is usually Asian people keeping other Asians in servitude.

[@Brandon-w3o]

They is still slavery (literally) going on today in Libya and China and parts of the Congo and India esp in miming but other industries as well. If you count human trafficking (which you should) about 3 million people are being trafficked each year most of them are women being forced into prostitution (sexual slavery) and many are underage. Around 150 000 people are trapped in human trafficking in Europe at any given time...... 95% of them young women and underage girls...

[@cjmiller2037]

Hope that man is still burning in hell. It was horrible, I'm an older white woman, and no most of us in this day think it was horrible, I pray the people who abused slaves, and those who killed millions of Jews so horribly are all in a special hell created just for there evil, demonic ways, hell would even be to good for the freaks who. Committed these horrific acts.

[@HypeTv100]

Its hard to watch , it breaks my heart to watch human treated this way ,

[@mrhindin3070]

Good! It should.

[@dillon1346]

@@mrhindin3070 why should it?

[@Gotham_Media]

Robert Dillon to never repeat it again, if you look at this and think “oh yeah the mistreatment made sense” you are going to end up hurting someone.

[@williaminus6545]

This IS what Northern Soldiers fought. It is why they were willing to die, notwithstanding Lincoln's cautiousness and political calculations about expediency.

[@MrChess187]

If Black History class is bringing you here 2019 and beyond . Thumbs up

[@NerdSplash5555]

These are really good actors

[@SapereRisin]

Amamzing History. Please continue to make documentaries like these!

[@KeyomiiLA05]

anyone else here from their history class ?

[@1021freestyle]

6 year old delivered to his master! This makes me sick! Slavery is and was a sin. I have a very hard times watching this....HUMAN beings being treated this way!!!!just can’t! Wish slavery and abuse never existed.

[@Pravdacz-tp8zu]

Harriet Tubman had to take care of a baby when she was 5 or 6. The baby's mother whipped whenever the baby started crying.

[@valerielol4233]

I have to watch this for school and now I feel sick after watching the whip scene :)

[@MGPMGP18]

This looks like a really good doc. Cannot wait to see it!

[@joserodriguez5211]

Thumbs up if you're a history teacher who sent their students here!

[@dillon1346]

Slavery was so horrible. 😢

[@disco4093]

Great documentary!

[@sognodiangeli5436]

So who is lazy again?

[@eslskypelessons7912]

Wow. What a lie. She always cared about the slaves. The biographer can't imagine a person who could care about others AND care about the fate of sinners?

[@johnborris3222]

NOt saying you're laying, but what is your source for this claim?

[@Dr_JSH]

Lincoln is rememberer today as the Great Emancipator who freed the slaves. While this is the truth, it's not the whole truth, nor is it nothing but the truth. Enlightened people evolve, as Lincoln did throughout his legal and political career. Even among abolitionists, ending slavery did not necessarily pair with Blacks, whether former slaves or free, having the same privileges and immunities of white citizens.

[@marianhill5324]

Woah, they totally left out her sister Sarah!

[@veggiesnchill8134]

Right!

[@casualgerm]

I wouldn't mind seeing a movie about John Brown...or Nat Turner.

[@migueljose5673]

May 13, 2023 PBS could have done a much more thorough presentation of the Abolitionists. So many notable men and women missing from the 30 - 40 years of largely ignored abolition history before the outbreak of civil war. Reviewing a current 700-page high school history book turned up only one small paragraph on the 19th century abolition movement. Tomorrow, May 14 is the 185th anniversary of the marriage of Theodore Dwight Weld to fellow-abolitionist lecturer Angelina Grimké in Philadelphia. The couple invited an interracial group of guests, many with strong abolitionist credentials, including Maria Weston Chapman, Abby Kelley Foster, William Lloyd Garrison, Gerrit Smith, Henry B. Stanton, and Lewis Tappan. Their wedding was the opening event in a week-long abolitionist celebration. On the same day of Theodore and Angelina’s wedding, Pennsylvania Hall built by abolitionists, opened with a week of scheduled programs. On May 18, 1838, just days after the opening speeches, a mob burned Pennsylvania Hall to the ground. Also missing is the life of abolitionist leader and presidential candidate James G. Birney (Liberty Party), Quaker abolitionists and underground railroad conductors, Levi and Catherine Coffin, the controversial Quaker interracial schools, the many abolitionist newspapers and other periodicals. Just now finishing the fascinating biography of Michigan abolitionist Laura Haviland ("A Woman's Life Work").

[@AngelicTroubleMaker-LaVooDoo24]

Yet, I have never understood why they make it seem as if black people are lazy! Obviously, it is the other way around...then and now in my EXPERIENCE!

[@countrybumpkin8705]

Because the disconnection derived after the 70s, after the implementation of chemical warfare and the suppression of history. This is one of the effects! Ignorant people say that....so smile at them when they say that sister, and keep working hard for your own life with yours...

[@skyler07zzyx]

anyone here because you have to do online school now?

[@DJLegends]

Me

[@Jenbug123]

You have to watch the whole series. This short clip does not do it justice.

[@streettrout855]

American history shows me that slavery was ended because it was morally wrong not because they actually cared about those were enslaved.

[@blotoutthesun4969]

The southern drawl is elongated version of the british accent

[@1Kinesis]

If human chattel was ( and still is) that most significant economic boost in American economy.... Why is it so hard for "them" to give us reparations?????

[@cappystrano1]

Why you? I bet you’ve had a cushy protected life.

[@teelora1322]

And they call us "LAZY😮😮!?!?

[@soulvaccination8679]

This made me mad.If i were living then i would in every way try and stop this sickening evil.Even if they threatened my own life.

[@ronalddesiderio7625]

These people still exist It’s called the 1%. I work for them.

[@sharekajones6661]

The fact that you guys have to go to history class to listen about his stuff is sad

[@lenieadolphson6776]

Imagine how hard it was for the people who experienced it

[@t.7785]

I just figured out that the woman was his aunt.

[@spazzedout750]

Trumps "Make America Great Again" but this time w Mexicans

[@JonathanTran-u8y]

5:26

[@JonathanTran-u8y]

5:33

[@JonathanTran-u8y]

5:48

[@noahkatz304]

8:58 HA!

[@twyncolen4124]

Dam!!!!

[@yaySurrep]

online class anyone?

[@sandramorey2529]

If you want to understand how world view can be so different, use this as your template. Apply it to Israel and what it has done to Palestiians, most of the population has no idea how harsh life in occupied Palestine is for Palestinians just as these Southerners didn't feel any humanity for the slaves. Maybe some of our white Americans still have so empathy toward people darker than they, who perhaps speak another language. So they voted against their own interests for a convicted criminal instead of for a half Asian woman. Go figure.

[@bonaduchiii3248]

Anyone else here for a school assignment

[@tompetersonfarms1316]

Thumbs up if American History made you watch this😋😤

[@moh-p7036]

THIS IS SHAMEFUL T_T

[@maureenbaddoo6247]

4:38-6:15

[@katiefountain2407]

7:55 and 8:10 were clear lies... Kind of frustrating when you expect something to be educational and not even 10 minutes in it's already lying to you. I'm going to continue with the series. But I'm going to quit watching if there is a third lie.... And those watching this for a school project. Just know that Public schools tend to be the biggest liars around... So don't trust everything you're told. Study to show thyself approved.

[@katiefountain2407]

The abolitionist movement started in 1756 by a white Quaker man. 20 years before the United States even became a country. At least half of the states didn't even want slavery initially.. I'm sure the educated people who made this video had a way of finding that out..

[@Dr_JSH]

You lack charity. Projects like this have multiple moving parts, including scriptwriting and narration. You have no evidence of a conspiracy to trick the masses. You don't even have a reason to suspect a a conspiracy exists so don't go there. Give people the benefit of the doubt instead of feeding a paranoid binary, Manichean worldview. At 7:55 I think, "Whoops, someone made a mistake." As for 8:10 I give them artistic license for using "no one," but I think you overlooked "compatriots" later in the sentence. Abolition was one thing; equality was another.

[@HolographicSweater]

this is how sjws think of current times

[@katiefountain2407]

Lol

[@cindybaker4600]

AT PAPER

[@racerelated1737]

i don't believe in slavery...guess its just me

[@zacharycat]

God didn't punish the slave owners because slavery is in the bible. There were good and bad people on both sides.

[@MiamiPush2theLimit]

zacharycat is rape and murder also in the Bible?

[@justathought973]

@@MiamiPush2theLimit Yes it is, as a matter of fact... kzbin.info/www/bejne/o6CQin9jodtmiLs kzbin.info/www/bejne/mqW0Y4eJZqicers

[@eldritchpumpkinghost2968]

Yeah god is pro slavery unless the slaves are his "chosen people"

[@sharpaycutie2]

Slavery in the bible was different. This slavery was just pure disrespect and disregard for human lives.

[@DJLegends]

Dude, slavery in the Bible represents the consequences of rebelling against God.