Free at Last!: Stories and Songs of Emancipation

True stories and traditional songs shed light on a lesser known era in African-American history — the crucial decades between Emancipation and the start of the Civil Rights movement.

In the dark of night, a mother risks her life to search for her four children, stolen by her former master. A wife refuses to hand her husband over to an angry white-hooded mob, despite the wailing of her babies — and the foot stomping on her pregnant belly. A woman calmly takes her seat in a first-class coach a...