b'Americas Long Struggle Against SlaveryBroadcast April 11May 1Focusing on the west coast of Africa in the15th century, Professor Bell follows slaveryto the U.S. and the abolitionist movement,the Underground Railroad, the Civil War,the Emancipation Proclamation and the subsequent passage of the 13th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. In this process, we better understand the grand problems animating everyone engaged in this struggle . should you fight slavery with violence . how do you convert moral outrage into political action . and whose responsibility is it to act? No easy answers, but numerous historical perspectives allowing us to form our own answers. Richard Bell, an Associate Professor of History at the University of Maryland, is the recipient of numerous teaching awards, has held major research fellowships and has written three books on this topic. 53'