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Historian James Grossman explains how Emancipation changed the Southern labor.
2:48
Descendant Rod Frazer remembers the types of labor on WD McCurdy's plantation.
2:31
Historian Mary Ellen Curtin talks about coal mining and the reliance on prison labor.
1:29
Historian Pete Daniel explains how the legal system perpetuated compulsion.
3:09
UW Clemons explains the company town built by US Steel in the 1900s for its workers.
1:28
Descendant Rod Frazer talks about how his ancestor W.D. McCurdy.
2:02
Historian Pete Daniel tells about the influential voices against peonage.
1:50
Historian Risa Goluboff explains the creation of the NAACP.
4:46
Descendant Susan Burnore talks about learning the history of her great-grandfather.
4:46
Descendant Kate Willis talks about why exploring family stories is important.
2:32
Martha Bouyer talks about the history of Birmingham during a StoryCorps interview.
1:26
Descendant Kate Willis describes peonage and how it worked.
