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Black Patriots: Heroes of the Civil War

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Takes a deep look at the Civil War, one of the most studied, debated, and dissected periods in American history, and the heroic figures who helped define and reshape the reality of a democracy.
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N/A
Year
2022
Genre
documentary
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Production
Six West Media
Awards
Nominated for 1 Primetime Emmy. 2 nominations total
Homepage
https://www.history.com/specials/black-patriots-heroes-of-the-civil-war
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
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(suspenseful music) - Black Patriots: Heroes of the Civil War 00:15
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(explosion booms) - Black Patriots: Heroes of the Civil War 00:20
(explosion booms)
(dramatic music) - Black Patriots: Heroes of the Civil War 00:16
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Black Americans were only mentioned - Black Patriots: Heroes of the Civil War 00:07
Black Americans were only mentioned
Nothing else was ever acknowledged - Black Patriots: Heroes of the Civil War 00:07
Nothing else was ever acknowledged
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If the role that African-Americans have played is - Black Patriots: Heroes of the Civil War 00:10
If the role that African-Americans have played is
It's 1783 and the end of the Revolutionary War - Black Patriots: Heroes of the Civil War 00:10
It's 1783 and the end of the Revolutionary War
(draatic music) - Black Patriots: Heroes of the Civil War 00:09
(draatic music)
In America's South, a new cash crop emerges. - Black Patriots: Heroes of the Civil War 00:06
In America's South, a new cash crop emerges.
- By the 1780s, 1790s, early 1800s, - Black Patriots: Heroes of the Civil War 00:11
- By the 1780s, 1790s, early 1800s,
And with cotton comes the expansion of slavery. - Black Patriots: Heroes of the Civil War 00:06
And with cotton comes the expansion of slavery.
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The one assurance of making money was to acquire slaves. - Black Patriots: Heroes of the Civil War 00:07
The one assurance of making money was to acquire slaves.
- And so really there's a Northern sphere of influence - Black Patriots: Heroes of the Civil War 00:16
- And so really there's a Northern sphere of influence
(dramatic music) - Black Patriots: Heroes of the Civil War 00:09
(dramatic music)
American cotton growers were the richest people - Black Patriots: Heroes of the Civil War 00:11
American cotton growers were the richest people
Abolitionists thought it was a crime - Black Patriots: Heroes of the Civil War 00:07
Abolitionists thought it was a crime
So somebody was going to have - Black Patriots: Heroes of the Civil War 00:09
So somebody was going to have
(cannons booming) (men shouting) - Black Patriots: Heroes of the Civil War 00:15
(cannons booming) (men shouting)
But President Abraham Lincoln is steadfast - Black Patriots: Heroes of the Civil War 00:06
But President Abraham Lincoln is steadfast
(cannons booming) - Black Patriots: Heroes of the Civil War 00:20
(cannons booming)
- He opposed slavery, but he did not want - Black Patriots: Heroes of the Civil War 00:06
- He opposed slavery, but he did not want
He was not someone who advocated - Black Patriots: Heroes of the Civil War 00:07
He was not someone who advocated
- When the Civil War starts, - Black Patriots: Heroes of the Civil War 00:06
- When the Civil War starts,
- For African-Americans, - Black Patriots: Heroes of the Civil War 00:06
- For African-Americans,
Blacks knew what was happening with this conflict - Black Patriots: Heroes of the Civil War 00:08
Blacks knew what was happening with this conflict
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(suspenseful music)
This story really represents anything that you can say - Black Patriots: Heroes of the Civil War 00:09
This story really represents anything that you can say
They weren't gonna wait for the Union Army - Black Patriots: Heroes of the Civil War 00:06
They weren't gonna wait for the Union Army
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(suspenseful music)
When the Civil War begins, Robert Smalls finds himself - Black Patriots: Heroes of the Civil War 00:17
When the Civil War begins, Robert Smalls finds himself
They were building the fortifications, - Black Patriots: Heroes of the Civil War 00:06
They were building the fortifications,
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Smalls, like so many enslaved people, - Black Patriots: Heroes of the Civil War 00:11
Smalls, like so many enslaved people,
- Robert really started looking - Black Patriots: Heroes of the Civil War 00:13
- Robert really started looking
- [Kareem] Determined not to lose his family, - Black Patriots: Heroes of the Civil War 00:11
- [Kareem] Determined not to lose his family,
Relyea loved to wear a certain hat - Black Patriots: Heroes of the Civil War 00:07
Relyea loved to wear a certain hat
He started thinking maybe - Black Patriots: Heroes of the Civil War 00:06
He started thinking maybe
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(suspenseful music)
He knows how to navigate that ship without any difficulty. - Black Patriots: Heroes of the Civil War 00:06
He knows how to navigate that ship without any difficulty.
He knows who he can trust on that ship - Black Patriots: Heroes of the Civil War 00:07
He knows who he can trust on that ship
- If anyone found out, - Black Patriots: Heroes of the Civil War 00:06
- If anyone found out,
The potential of the family being sold, - Black Patriots: Heroes of the Civil War 00:06
The potential of the family being sold,
- [Kareem] On May 13th, 1862, - Black Patriots: Heroes of the Civil War 00:08
- [Kareem] On May 13th, 1862,
- Robert and the crew learned - Black Patriots: Heroes of the Civil War 00:11
- Robert and the crew learned
They were not supposed to leave the steamer - Black Patriots: Heroes of the Civil War 00:07
They were not supposed to leave the steamer
- I think there was a certain amount - Black Patriots: Heroes of the Civil War 00:09
- I think there was a certain amount
- [Kareem] Robert Smalls and his crew - Black Patriots: Heroes of the Civil War 00:05
- [Kareem] Robert Smalls and his crew
Around 3:00 AM, Smalls, quietly steers the Planter out - Black Patriots: Heroes of the Civil War 00:10
Around 3:00 AM, Smalls, quietly steers the Planter out
- The likelihood of this actually succeeding - Black Patriots: Heroes of the Civil War 00:06
- The likelihood of this actually succeeding
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(suspenseful music)
Castle Pinckney, - Black Patriots: Heroes of the Civil War 00:09
Castle Pinckney,
As Smalls comes upon the first - Black Patriots: Heroes of the Civil War 00:09
As Smalls comes upon the first
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(suspenseful music)
Robert knew all the right signals to give - Black Patriots: Heroes of the Civil War 00:07
Robert knew all the right signals to give
- But there's also a certain amount of bravado involved. - Black Patriots: Heroes of the Civil War 00:06
- But there's also a certain amount of bravado involved...
Robert actually dons the captain's hat. - Black Patriots: Heroes of the Civil War 00:06
Robert actually dons the captain's hat.
He pretends to be him - Black Patriots: Heroes of the Civil War 00:08
He pretends to be him
(suspenseful music) - Black Patriots: Heroes of the Civil War 00:11
(suspenseful music)
But on his way to freedom, - Black Patriots: Heroes of the Civil War 00:07
But on his way to freedom,
- [Kareem] In the predawn hours of May 13th, 1862, - Black Patriots: Heroes of the Civil War 00:18
- [Kareem] In the predawn hours of May 13th, 1862,
- It was a particularly risky move because they were - Black Patriots: Heroes of the Civil War 00:09
- It was a particularly risky move because they were
It was very possible that the Union fleet would assume - Black Patriots: Heroes of the Civil War 00:07
It was very possible that the Union fleet would assume
- [Kareem] Robert's wife, Hannah, - Black Patriots: Heroes of the Civil War 00:08
- [Kareem] Robert's wife, Hannah,
- The Union was preparing their guns to fire on the ship. - Black Patriots: Heroes of the Civil War 00:05
- The Union was preparing their guns to fire on the ship.
And just as the captain was about - Black Patriots: Heroes of the Civil War 00:09
And just as the captain was about
- And they assume that it is a Confederate ship - Black Patriots: Heroes of the Civil War 00:06
- And they assume that it is a Confederate ship
What they didn't expect to see were enslaved people - Black Patriots: Heroes of the Civil War 00:09
What they didn't expect to see were enslaved people
"I've brought you some of Lincoln's guns, sir." - Black Patriots: Heroes of the Civil War 00:11
"I've brought you some of Lincoln's guns, sir...
And this was a gun boat. (uplifting music) - Black Patriots: Heroes of the Civil War 00:08
And this was a gun boat. (uplifting music)
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(suspenseful music)
- [Kareem] The navy enlists Smalls as a civilian pilot. - Black Patriots: Heroes of the Civil War 00:05
- [Kareem] The navy enlists Smalls as a civilian pilot.
He's been running this baby for almost a year and a half, - Black Patriots: Heroes of the Civil War 00:09
He's been running this baby for almost a year and a hal...
- When it came time - Black Patriots: Heroes of the Civil War 00:08
- When it came time
The increased manpower - Black Patriots: Heroes of the Civil War 00:07
The increased manpower
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(suspenseful music)
(uplifting music) That's the story - Black Patriots: Heroes of the Civil War 00:08
(uplifting music) That's the story
- William Matthews was born free in the late 1840s. - Black Patriots: Heroes of the Civil War 00:06
- William Matthews was born free in the late 1840s.
He settled in Baltimore, - Black Patriots: Heroes of the Civil War 00:06
He settled in Baltimore,
I'm gonna go somewhere where, you know, I can be freer. - Black Patriots: Heroes of the Civil War 00:06
I'm gonna go somewhere where, you know, I can be freer.
- [Kareem] Matthew settles in Kansas - Black Patriots: Heroes of the Civil War 00:10
- [Kareem] Matthew settles in Kansas
When Kansas Senator Jim Lane musters a black regiment - Black Patriots: Heroes of the Civil War 00:11
When Kansas Senator Jim Lane musters a black regiment
- Jim Lane decides to recruit black units - Black Patriots: Heroes of the Civil War 00:13
- Jim Lane decides to recruit black units
- [Erica] The 1st Kansas is unique - Black Patriots: Heroes of the Civil War 00:07
- [Erica] The 1st Kansas is unique
It is free black men who volunteer in 1862. - Black Patriots: Heroes of the Civil War 00:06
It is free black men who volunteer in 1862.
He became kind of the animating spirit in the regiment. - Black Patriots: Heroes of the Civil War 00:06
He became kind of the animating spirit in the regiment.
- Matthews wanted to prove not only - Black Patriots: Heroes of the Civil War 00:07
- Matthews wanted to prove not only
And he took it very personally - Black Patriots: Heroes of the Civil War 00:10
And he took it very personally
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Takes a deep look at the Civil War, one of the most studied, debated, and dissected periods in American history, and the heroic figures who helped define and reshape the reality of a democracy.

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Production: Six West Media
Genre: documentary
Year: 2022
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ImdbRating: 5.1
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Released: 21 Feb 2022
Awards: Nominated for 1 Primetime Emmy. 2 nominations total
Homepage: https://www.history.com/specials/black-patriots-heroes-of-the-civil-war

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