Transport yourself back into the past, to the year 1865. What if you had been a slave? You had seen friends and family sold. You had been whipped and worked to exhaustion. Every day was a nightmare. Now, a Union army officer, Major General Gordon Granger, arrives in Galveston, Texas, and issues a proclamation that ends slavery. Imagine that joy. Cheers erupt. Newly freed men and women embrace.
BROADCASTING FOR INDEPENDENCE
