THE AFRICAN AMERICANS

THE MANY RIVERS TO CROSS

THE AGE OF SLAVERY (1800-1860)

TUESDAY, OCTOBER 29 @ 9:00PM

The Age of Slavery illustrates how black lives changed dramatically in the aftermath of the American Revolution. For free black people in places like Philadelphia, these years were a time of tremendous opportunity. But for most African Americans, this era represented a new nadir. The cotton industry fueled the rapid expansion of slavery into new territories, and a Second Middle Passage forcibly relocated African Americans from the Upper South into the Deep South. Yet as slavery intensified, so did resistance.

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