Speaker 1: On this final episode of season threes. I didn't know.
Speaker 1: Maybe you didn't either. I want to say, February feels
Speaker 1: like our family reunion. Annually we get together and celebrate
Speaker 1: our black family members from the past that have helped
Speaker 1: shape our current as we continue to shape the future.
Speaker 1: But did you know that family reunions traced back to slavery?
Speaker 1: Because I didn't. I didn't know. Maybe I didn't know.
Speaker 1: Maybe I didn't know. I didn't know. Maybe I didn't know.
Speaker 1: I didn't know. I didn't know. Family reunions can be
Speaker 1: traced back to the Emancipation Proclamation when former enslaved folks
Speaker 1: would look for family members that were separated from during slavery.
Speaker 1: You got to remember slave marriages and family tars. They
Speaker 1: weren't recognized by American law. Owners could sell husbands from wives,
Speaker 1: parents from children, brothers from sisters. The big slave holders
Speaker 1: had hell of a plantations and a lot of times
Speaker 1: they just moved in slaves black folks around, splitting up
Speaker 1: the families in the process. So after good Old Abe
Speaker 1: Lincoln signed the Mancipation Proclamation and black folks were finally free.
Speaker 1: You can't see my air quote, but free. The first
Speaker 1: thing for them enslave black folks did was look for
Speaker 1: family to reunite. Family was the definition of freedom to
Speaker 1: black families. Did you hear that? I said? Family, your wife,
Speaker 1: your children, being able to love, own and touch your
Speaker 1: siblings and parents. That was the definition of freedom. Boy,
Speaker 1: we sure have strayed from that logicality. My point is,
Speaker 1: thank you cousins from your Carolina cousin for a phenomenal
Speaker 1: season three of I Didn't Know. Maybe you didn't either.
Speaker 1: We shared stories from massacre Mondays to Mansimusa, from black
Speaker 1: businesses to burn black orphanages. Thanks to Nissan, we were
Speaker 1: able to highlight current black trailblazers and steams science, technology, engineering, arts, mathematics,
Speaker 1: while also making it fun with robotic dogs and drones
Speaker 1: that go in the air or under us C. The
Speaker 1: next Black Effect Family Reunion is in Atlanta, Georgia, April
Speaker 1: twenty seven for the second Black Effect Podcast Festival. I'm
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