What Gone With The Wind got wrong - Sherman's March Revisited

Host Pedro Rodriguez talks with historian Bennett Parten about his groundbreaking book Somewhere Toward Freedom: Sherman’s March and the Story of America’s Largest Emancipation. Parten reframes Sherman’s March to the Sea in 1864 not just as a military campaign, but as a mass movement of self-emancipated people who sought out Union lines, turning the march into a liberation on a scale unmatched in American history. Their courage and determination helped lay the foundation for Reconstruction and redefined the meaning of freedom in the United States. The book challenges the picture of the South portrayed in the movie Gone With the Wind and brings to life how free slaves actively assisted Union forces in beating the Confederacy and brought and to the war in Georgia.