Emancipation Road
From The Creators Of The Best-Selling Documentary Series "Up From Slavery"... A 7-Part Compelling Journey Through America's Greatest Saga. In 1860, the nation founded upon an idea that all men are created equal and endowed by their creator with the inalienable rights of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness had as many as four hundred thousand slave-owners and almost four million slaves. By denying these rights to more than twelve percent of its population, America would soon pay with the blood of a generation. The story of African Slavery in America started with the first permanent English Colony in the 17th century... and ended with the Civil War. But those two hundred and fifty years of struggle were just the beginning. The beginning of a journey down the long Emancipation Road...
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Emancipation Road
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- Ep 1
1.1625 - 1863 – The Shadows of Slavery
16-09-201448mThis first episode of Emancipation Road takes a look into the history of slavery in the United States, from the beginnings of the Atlantic slave trade to the Civil War.
- Ep 2
2.1870-1909 - Separate But Equal
16-09-201448mAn examination of African-American life through the end of the 19th Century, and the disparity that divided society into "separate but equal" facilities.
- Ep 3
3.1863-1870 - The Emancipation Proclamation
16-09-201448mAbraham Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation and its effect on the end of the Civil War, the Reconstruction era in the South, and the eventual Constitutional amendments passed to pr...
- Ep 4
4.1909-WWII - Regardless of the Color of One's Skin
16-09-201450mBeginning with the founding of the NAACP, this episode examines the societal changes that helped accelerate African American advancement in the early 20th Century.
- Ep 5
5.1945-1963 - The Double Victory
16-09-201452mAfrican American soldiers celebrated a double victory: Defeat of the Axis powers, and greater acceptance in the military following their devoted service. On the home front, however...
- Ep 6
6.1963-1968 - The Civil Rights Era
16-09-201450mA look at the protests, demonstrations, and prominent figures of the Civil Rights Movement that finally ended segregation in the United States.
- Ep 7
7.1968-Today - Heroes of Hope
16-09-201451mThis final episode looks at some of the groundbreaking African American heroes in the years following the Civil Rights movement, up through President Barack Obama.
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