. . "African Americans History." . . "DNA Fingerprinting." . . "Films for the Humanities & Sciences (Firm)" . . . . . "Promise of freedom"@en . "Internet videos"@en . "African-American Lives: The Promise of Freedom" . . . . . "Nonfiction television programs"@en . . . "History"@en . "African American lives (Television program). Season 1, Episode 2, Promise of freedom"@en . . . . . . . . . . . . "African-American lives the promise of freedom"@en . . . . . . "Television programs"@en . . . "Educational television programs"@en . . . . . . "Documentary television programs"@en . . . . "This program looks at how African-Americans defined their freedom after slavery. Henry Louis Gates, Jr. reviews courthouse records of land acquisitions, documents from the Freedmen's Bureau and the 1870 census--the first in which African-Americans were counted as citizens, not property--to trace his subjects' lineages through Reconstruction. A vein that continues throughout the series is Gates' personal story, and in this episode he seeks to confirm a family legend--that a white slaveholder is one of his 19th-century ancestors."@en . "Video recordings for the hearing impaired"@en . . . . . "This program looks at how African-Americans defined their freedom after slavery. Henry Louis Gates, Jr. reviews courthouse records of land acquisitions, documents from the Freedmen's Bureau and the 1870 census--the first in which African-Americans were counted as citizens, not property--to trace his subjects' lineages through Reconstruction. A vein that continues throughout the series is Gates' personal story, and in this episode he seeks to confirm a family legend--that a white slaveholder is one of his 19th-century ancestors. Distributed by PBS Distribution. Part of the series African-American Lives. (54 minutes) A streaming videorecording." . . . . . "Genealogy"@en . . "1861 - 1877" . . "United States" . .