Africans in America. Part 1, The terrible transformation. Interview with David Blight, professor of history and black studies, Amherst College. 2 of 4

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David Blight is interviewed about the contradictions of freedom and prosperity, The Great Awakening of the 1740s, Christianity spreads among black Americans, the Declaration of Independence and the...

David Blight is interviewed about the contradictions of freedom and prosperity, The Great Awakening of the 1740s, Christianity spreads among black Americans, the Declaration of Independence and the challenge to slavery, The Constitution, free states vs. slave states, free blacks resulting from the Revolutionary War, expansion of southern slavery after the Revolution.

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