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...

Traces the earlier causes of the Civil War, including the different economies of the North and the South, the issue of slavery, the migration of freed blacks to the North, slave rebellions, the abolitionist movement, and the Underground...