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This week we will continue our examination of slavery debate. First, we will watch the documentary film, "Africans in America: Judgment Day," and then we will discuss the political and cultural factors that divided the nation during the 1850s. In particular, we will look at the following topics: the publication of Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin, the Kansas-Nebraska Act, the formation of the Republican Party, the publication of George Fitzhugh's Sociology for the South, the Dred Scott decision, and John Brown's raid on Harper's Ferry, Virginia.
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