This week Andrew and Ted sit down to discuss Apple TV +'s, Will Smith starring, "Emancipation". "Emancipation" is story inspired by the iconic photo of "Whipped Peter", taken a slave named Peter in 1863 Louisiana. The storyline tells of a slave, Peter, ripped from his family from the plantation owned by Captain Lyons after being provided to the Confederate Army as part of a tax levy to plantation owners. Peter, along with 3 other slaves, escape the Confederate run railroad camp in hopes of making it to Baton Rouge where the Union Army was and people of color where now free. Days in the swamp from being chased by the Confederate camp escapee chaser Fassel (played by Ben Foster). Peter finally makes his way to an area controlled by the Union Army, his being chased are now over. Peter is now forced, due to a lack of moving forward options, to join the Union Army ... there he, along with his Union Army squad, return to the plantation of Captain Lyon as he searches for his family.
