Civil War: Promise of Reconstruction

Civil War: Promise of Reconstruction

SKU: 32559

$42.49

20 Minutes - Color

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Categories: Elementary Films, Innovation & Discovery, Libraries, Parents, Primary Education, Secondary & College, Secondary, College, General Interest, Shaping of the American Nation, Social Studies, U.S. History,

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What the future would hold for slaves after the Civil War was presaged by the Port Royal “experiment” re-created in this program. Gideonite missionaries set out to educate 7,000 slaves abandoned by plantation owners in South Carolina, and to teach them small business management. Tragically, the noble experiment was lost in a sea of profiteering. An LCA release.

28 minutes | Color

What the future would hold for slaves after the Civil War was presaged by the Port Royal “experiment” re-created in this program. Gideonite missionaries set out to educate 7,000 slaves abandoned by plantation owners in South Carolina, and to teach them small business management. Tragically, the noble experiment was lost in a sea of profiteering. An LCA release.

28 minutes | Color