[Free Registration/Login Required] Yale University's David Brion Davis presents a lecture focused on how slavery came to be in the early development of the New World and goes on to cover how it falls apart. [49:48]

Video looks at the history of slavery in America including how it started, the impact that the invention of the cotton gin had on slavery, abolition, the slavery debate as the nation expanded westward, the Civil War, and the aftermath of...

[Free Registration/Login Required] Ira Berlin delivers a lecture featuring the premise of his book, Generations in Captivity: Slavery in America. From the early establishment of the settlements in the New World slavery made its presence...

George Mason was a slaveholder, but he came to believe that slavery was wrong. [1 min. 4 secs.]

Washington and Jefferson were opposed to slavery, but both were slaveholders. We examine their positions on slavery in this episode. [1 min. 2 secs.]

James Madison was consistently opposed to slavery throughout his life. [55 secs.]

George Mason was strongly opposed to slavery and expressed his opposition throughout his life. He felt slavery would destroy the new nation. [1 min. 28 secs.]

George Mason called slavery "that infernal traffic" and thought it posed a danger to the morals of the people who held slaves. [1 min. 22 secs.]

Unlike George Washington, George Mason never freed his slaves. He condemned slavery, but was unable to fully realize his own principles. [1 min. 11 secs.]

Free blacks were kidnapped from New York streets and sold into slavery. Some colonists were outraged. [1 min. 7 secs.]

Vigorous and vocal opposition to slavery emerged from the New York Manumission Society, founded by Alexander Hamilton, John Jay, and others. [1 min. 8 secs.]

Historian Bernard Bailyn argued that abolitionism didn't truly exist in the era of the American Revolution. [54 secs.]

Should we expect the Founders to have transcended the limitations of their own age in their actions against and attitudes toward slavery? [1 min. 9 secs.]

America's ideals of liberty couldn't justify the institution of slavery: Founders like George Mason knew it. [59 secs.]

James Madison didn't always live up to his ideals. Take slavery, for example. [1 min. 12 secs.]

James Madison thought that slavery was a threat to the Union. He was right. [1 min. 4 secs.]

American colonists in the 1770s worked hard and lived well. But there was one serious problem that would result a century later in civil war: slavery.

American colonists in the 1770s worked hard and lived well. But there was one serious problem that would result a century later in civil war: slavery.

Today we discuss slavery in the American colonies.

[Free Registration/Login Required] Brief video lecture presented by Ira Berlin identifying the fine difference between a society with slaves and a slave society. [1:59]

Slavery wasn't just a Southern problem. It was a big problem for the North, too. [1 min. 12 secs.]

How and why did the Northern and Southern parts of the United States begin to develop distinctive regional attitudes about the institution of slavery? In this video, Kim discusses how the economic systems and ideas of each region evolved...

In this Crash Course video, John Green teaches you about one of the least funny subjects in history: slavery. John investigates when and where slavery originated, how it changed over the centuries, and how Europeans and colonists in the...