The Future of America's Past (TV Series)

Freedom's Fortress (2019)

Edward L. Ayers: Self - Host

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• [first lines] 

  Self - Host : There are many kinds of fog at Fort Monroe - the fog that drifts in from the Chesapeake Bay overnight... but there's also a fog of history and memory as we try to recover the remarkable events that unfolded on this landscape. What if I told you this was the place where the first Africans in what would be the United States of America? And what if I told you this was the very same place where a vast system of slavery began to unravel? And what if I told you this is a place where, even today, people are working to remember those crucial parts of the American past?