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  • S02E01 The Forgotten Courtroom Dramas That Put Freedom On Trial

    • June 25, 2025
    • PBS Digital Studios

    Decades before abolition, enslaved people sued for their freedom in court and won. But today, the only freedom suit most people are familiar with is the case of Dred Scott. So why don't we know more about these early lawsuits? From Massachusetts to Missouri, the history of freedom suits is more complicated than you might think.

  • S02E02 The Summer We Almost Lost Philadelphia

    • August 27, 2025
    • PBS Digital Studios

    One hot, mosquito-filled summer, less than a decade after the birth of the US, yellow fever brought the capital city to the brink of collapse.

  • S02E03 The Hidden Black Society They Don’t Teach You About

    • October 23, 2025
    • PBS Digital Studios

    Deep in the Great Dismal Swamp, thousands of Black people created a hidden free society, one that defied slavery for centuries. This is the story of the rebels who turned a swamp into a sanctuary.

  • S02E04 The Forgotten War for Native Land They Don't Teach You About

    • December 17, 2025
    • PBS Digital Studios

    After the Revolutionary War, the U.S. was drowning in debt. To pay it off, it sold Native land it didn’t control. This is the story of how a powerful Native alliance fought back, slowing America’s westward expansion in a war forgotten by history.