African-American Lives The Promise of Freedom /

This program looks at how African-Americans defined their freedom after slavery. Henry Louis Gates, Jr. reviews courthouse records of land acquisitions, documents from the Freedmen's Bureau and the 1870 census - the first in which African-Americans were counted as citizens, not property - to tr...

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Other Authors: Films for the Humanities & Sciences (Firm), Infobase., Public Broadcasting Service (U.S.)
Format: Video
Language: English
Published: New York, N.Y. : Infobase, [2011]
Physical Description: 1 streaming video file (54 min.) : sound, color, digital file.
Series: African American lives.
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