American Experience: The Abolitionists Tuesday, January 22 at
9:00 p.m. Vividly bringing to life the epic struggles of the men
and women who fought to end slavery, "The Abolitionists" tells
the intertwined stories of Frederick Douglass, William Lloyd
Garrison, Angelina Grimké, Harriet Beecher Stowe and John Brown.
Fighting body and soul, they led the most important civil rights
crusade in American history. What began as a pacifist movement
became a fiery and furious struggle that forever changed the
nation. Black and white, Northerners and Southerners, poor and
wealthy, these passionate anti-slavery activists tore the nation
apart in order to form a more perfect union. The series, which
tells the story largely through period drama narrative, airs 150
years after the Emancipation Proclamation took effect in January
1863. Explore the story of the anti-slavery movement through
"American Experience's" Abolitionist Map of America. Link to:
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/interactive-
map/aboliti