The lens of slavery helps you to understand that you may have to change the world. Black women are looking at freedom as a way to change a lot of things. A number of women went to court to get custody of their children, although this was considered very far out in the 19th century.
Featuring Thulani Davis on The Emancipation Circuit: Black Activism Forging a Culture of Freedom, a monumental history of freedpeople organizing amid the Civl War and Reconstruction.
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