How freed people sought out their kin following emancipation, and how they worked to establish new lives with their families, pushing for recognition in the eyes of the law. Support the show: <a href="http://donate.vpm.org/site/Donation2?1557.donation=form1&df_id=1557&mfc_pref=T">http://donate.vpm.org/site/Donation2?1557.donation=form1&df_id=1557&mfc_pref=T</a>

How freed people sought out their kin following emancipation, and how they worked to establish new lives with their families, pushing for recognition in the eyes of the law. Support the show: http://donate.vpm.org/site/Donation2?1557.donation=form1&df_id=1557&mfc_pref=T

How freed people sought out their kin following emancipation, and how they worked to establish new lives with their families, pushing for recognition in the eyes of the law. Support the show: <a href="http://donate.vpm.org/site/Donation2?1557.donation=form1&amp;df_id=1557&amp;mfc_pref=T" rel="noopener noreferrer">http://donate.vpm.org/site/Donation2?1557.donation=form1&amp;df_id=1557&amp;mfc_pref=T</a>

Reconstructing Family

Highlighting true stories of Black people’s fight for liberation, progress and joy from the Civil War to the Civil Rights Movement and beyond. Seizing Freedom illustrates the myriad ways Black people have sought and defined their own freedom in spite of the monumental forces at work to keep them from it.

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