America's Long Struggle against Slavery Episode 26, The Slaves' Experience of the Civil War Episode 26, The Slaves' Experience of the Civil War.

Streaming video - 2020

From the beginning of the war, enslaved people understood it to be a war of freedom, a war to destroy American slavery. But President Lincoln's charge was simply to preserve the union. Find out how this tension played out on plantations and battlefields, in Congress and in the White House, during the Civil War.