Part 4: The Challenge of Freedom

시즌 1, 에피소드 4: The complexities of the Civil War and Reconstruction are chronicled through the experience of South Carolina slave Robert Smalls. The formation of militant groups, such as the Ku Klux Klan, threatened the future of racial equality and segregation laws began to appear across the country. Slavery's eradication had not brought an end to black oppression.