John Janey: The Courage to Flee and to Fight

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Finding Your Roots Finding Your Roots 2 Finding Your Roots II Henry Louis Gates Jr. fyr14 wnet Slavery in the U.S Runaway Slave story Underground Railroad Fugitive Slave Act The Civil War Colored Infantry 22nd Regiment of the Colored Infantry Emancipation Proclamation Colored Troops Abraham Lincoln American History social studies enslaved people freedmen Union slaveholding states Courtney B. Vance text-dependent questions evidence based questions

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History-Social Science

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Grade 6 Grade 7 Grade 8 Grade 9 Grade 10 Grade 11 Grade 12

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John Janey: The Courage to Flee and to Fight

Learn about actor Courtney B. Vance’s ancestor, an enslaved man named John Janey, who ran away to freedom and later fought on the Union side during the Civil War in this video from Finding Your Roots. Through newspaper archives, Underground Railroad chronicles, and military records, a dramatic story begins to unfold about the epic life of a true American hero.

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PBS Learning Media