ANTI-SLAVERY FLAG
AIRED: Season 2, Episode 3
THE DETECTIVES: Wes Cowan and Tukufu Zuberi
THE PLACE: Rockford, Michigan
THE CASE:
What two Michigan brothers believed was an old sheet in a family trunk may have contributed to the end of slavery in America.
Was the sheet a flag an ancestor may have used to campaign for the creation of Free States?
Or was it used as propaganda in a pivotal pre-Civil War campaign?
History Detectives explores the politically charged abolition movement to reveal the surprising past of this family and their flag.
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