History of the United States I / Unit 16 USH1 2295 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Rebuilding Families
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The idea
Slavery had denied legal recognition to Black marriages, deprived enslaved men of ability to protect enslaved women, and allowed children and parents to be sold apart.
In practice
Thousands taking to the roads searching for lost spouses and children.
Where people slip
One journalist interviewed a freed person who had travelled over six hundred miles on foot searching for the family taken from him.
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