How Did the Race Conscience of Freed People Shape Their Economic Philosophy?

You write about one 1865 black mass meeting, which created a document entitled equal suffrage. It called on black people to form political labor and land associations. What happens next is mostly labor organizing because it was fundamental to their understanding of the situation in the first place. They all understood they had not been brought for any benevolent reason. No one was trying to get know them when they got here that they had no identity in the culture other than as laborers.