This is the story of these men and women who by their hands laid the foundation of what would become the most powerful nation on Earth. With incredibly detailed historical reenactments, expert commentary and the stories of slavery told through first-hand accounts, this is an epic struggle 400 years in the making. But when slavery was first brought to America's shores, this war, and even the nation it tore apart, was centuries in the future. The nation would pay a bloody cost for denying that right to more than twelve percent of its population. Washington always wanted to have a good education. The nation was founded upon the idea that all men are created equal and endowed by their creator with the inalienable rights of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. Washington was born a slave and at the age of nine he was freed, thanks to the emancipation that was passed. In 1860, as the American Experiment threatened to explode into a bloody civil war, there were as many as four hundred thousand slave-owners in the United States, and almost four million slaves. Up From Slavery is a powerful, compelling and haunting 7-part documentary series that examines the history of slavery in America, from the arrival of the first African slaves through Nat Turner's Rebellion to the Civil War and beyond.
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