The Secret Group That Planned an Insurrection Against Slavery

Overview

"Moses Dickson, a traveling barber in the years before the Civil War, had a secret– he was one of twelve members of a covert society that planned to recruit men who were 'courageous, patient, temperate, and possessed of sound common sense.' Their goal? Launch a coordinated insurrection against slaveholders and claim land for black people in the South. And they almost did."

Production

PBS