LibGuides: Juneteenth & Emancipation: Media

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The Emancipation Proclamation (04:01) From Title: The Civil War: Episode 3—Forever Free (1862) Lincoln issues the Emancipation Proclamation, September 22, 1862. "The war is ennobled, the object is higher." Ken Burns.
Found Voices: The Slave Narratives (21:00) In this profoundly moving program, Ted Koppel of ABC News presents the African-American slave experience in the voices of those who knew it firsthand. Thanks to tapes—now digitally remastered—from a project undertaken during the 1930s and 40s by John Henry Falke and others, 101-year-old Fountain Hughes, who was born in 1848, and other ex-slaves give their recollections of life before Emancipation and during Reconstruction.