Rural areas were often the strongest bases for black political power during reconstruction. But today of course we think of cities as black political strongholds. Why was the countryside so much more conducive to freed people exercising power? Both things are true for the same reason. It has to do with where the majority of the black population was.
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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