Watch 15-Minute Preview Of Part 2 Of 'The Abolitionists' (Focus On Frederick Douglass)

From Shadow and Act Tue Jan 15 2013, 15:19:48

PBS' 3-part, 3-hour American Experience film titled The Abolitionists, continues tonight with Part 2, after last Tuesday's broacast debut. The mini-series will finish off next week Tuesday, with Part 3, during its standard 9pm-10pm time slot. The film (which is a combo scripted/acted and documentary sequences) brings to life the epic struggles of the men and women who fought to end slavery, intertwining the 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...

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