Aired Sunday August 1, 5:00pm - 6:00pmon Smithsonian Channel SD

Civil War 360

Fight for Freedom

In the final progamme of the series, actor Dennis Haysbert traces his ancestry four generations back to enslaved people sold to plantations in America's Deep South. Objects from the Smithsonian's collection - a ship's manifest listing a cargo of slaves, the inkwell Lincoln used to write the Emancipation Proclamation, a hymnal owned by Union spy Harriet Tubman.

Category
War / History
Original air date
2013-11-10
Cast and crew
  • Molly HermannDirector
  • Dennis HaysbertHost
  • Alex Drummond
  • Fritz Klein
  • John Asbury
  • Nita Brown
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