The movement that inspired Uncle Tom's Cabin...

Shared beliefs about slavery bring together people from all walks of life, including author Harriet Beecher Stowe, whose first trip to the South changes her life and her writing, and Frederick Douglass, a young slave who becomes hopeful when he hears about the abolitionists. Tonight PBS premieres part 1 of THE ABOLITIONISTS and the story of these and others who helped change a nation...8pm