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find out more at southwest.com/blackhistory. >>> before the break we told you about slavery by anotherat african-americans freed after the civil war but later reenslaved. two women share emotional stories about their relatives on opposing sides of the slavery controversy. susan banore, the great granddaughter of a slave owner who murdered 11 to hide evidence. tonya grooms discovered her great grandfather was a free man falsely arrested and made a slave until he died. we begin with tony talking about her great grandfather. >> cunningham represents these people but for the detailed research would have disappeared completely. people were being reenslaved on a large scale, they were working for companies as leased labor but in the case of my ancestor, vague began si which proves i can't prove i have a job. if you couldn't, you could be picked up any time, forced into labor where the they're department or the courts may receive payment for your worth but you never do and oftentimes it was brutal and unfortunately in the case of green cottonham, he does not survive. >> john williams murdered

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