eVideo
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Brass Bands, Powwows, and Folk Festivals
Year
2019
Language
ENGLISH
Duration
28m
Rating
TVPG
Performers
Anthony Seeger
Directed By
The Great Courses
Publication Information
The Great Courses
Summary
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.