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Article: PBS HISTORY DETECTIVES FEATURES UNIVERSITY OF NORTH DAKOTA PROFESSOR'S SLAVERY RESEARCH
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- US Fed News Service, Including US State News
- Article date:
- August 12, 2009
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GRAND FORKS, N.D., Aug. 11 -- University of North Dakota issued the following news release:
University of North Dakota faculty member Eric Burin will be featured on the PBS television show History Detectives on Monday, August 17, at 8 p.m. (CDT).
This History Detectives episode will showcase Burin's research on the African colonization movement-this was a time in U.S. history from the early 1700s to late 1800s when there was a movement to return black Americans back to Africa.
Burin, an assistant professor in the UND Department of History, is an expert on Liberia, a country on the west coast of Africa founded by freed American slaves. PBS interviews Burin about why some 19th century black ...