Season 1

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  N/A/100 votes

  A Picture of Freedom

  Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 3/14/1999

  In the pre-Civil War South, a young slave girl secretly learns how to read and write. She determines to help and teach other slaves.

  Director: Helaine Head

  Writer: Unknown

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  N/A/100 votes

  Dreams in the Golden Country

  Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 4/1/1999

  A Russian Jewish immigrant girl lives with her family in a tenement on the Lower East Side. She strives to learn English and pursue her dream of acting.

  Director: Shawn Levy

  Writer: Unknown

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  7.0/101 votes

  A Journey to the New World

  Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 5/6/1999

  Mem, a 12-year-old Pilgrim, has just arrived in the New World. With the help of an American Indian, she endures her first year at Plymouth Colony.

  Director: Don McCutcheon

  Writer: Unknown

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  3.3/103 votes

  Standing in the Light

  Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 9/12/1999

  A young Quaker girl captured by an Indian tribe falls in love with a handsome warrior and wonders if she will be able to return to her old life.

  Director: Stacey Stewart Curtis

  Writer: Unknown

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  N/A/100 votes

  So Far From Home

  Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 10/2/1999

  Mary, a teenage immigrant from Ireland, finds that working in a mill in Lowell, Massachusetts is not what she'd envisioned as new life in America.

  Director: Unknown

  Writer: Unknown

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  N/A/100 votes

  The Winter of Red Snow

  Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 11/6/1999

  During the Revolutionary War, young Abby Stewart befriends Martha Washington and helps Revolutionary soldiers in Valley Forge, PA.

  Director: Unknown

  Writer: Unknown

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  N/A/100 votes

  Color Me Dark

  Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 2/7/2000

  A young African-American girl moves north with her family to Chicago -- the land of opportunity -- hoping to escape the racism of the rural south.

  Director: Unknown

  Writer: Unknown

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  N/A/100 votes

  A Line in the Sand

  Season 1 Episode 8 - Aired 4/10/2000

  In this fictional account of Texan history, a young pioneer girl writes in her diary of the fight for freedom against the Mexicans.

  Director: Unknown

  Writer: Unknown

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  N/A/100 votes

  When Will This Cruel War Be Over?

  Season 1 Episode 9 - Aired 7/5/2000

  Living in the Confederate South during the Civil War, a young Confederate girl faces a dilemma when a Union soldier is injured at her doorstep.

  Director: Unknown

  Writer: Unknown