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Dear America

Season 1 Episode 4 - So Far From Home

1999 · 26 min

TV-G

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.

Captured by a Native tribe, a young Quaker girl falls in love with a handsome warrior and wonders if she will be able to return to her old life.

Mem has just arrived in the New World. With the help of the American Native Squanto, she endures her first year at Plymouth Colony.

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.

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.

A Russian-Jewish immigrant girl lives with her family in a tenement on the Lower East Side. She strives to learn English and become an actress.

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

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

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.

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.

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