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Emancipation Circuit w/ Thulani Davis

The Dig

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What Is the Difference Between Black Identity and Slavery?

People on every farm where they were laboring had a sense of community. This revelation, let's say you went to a fort near where you had been and it's also in a place near to where some of your family were sold. One camp in Mississippi sent a letter to one of the authorities saying we the colored people of nachas. That's how they began to explore this long journey we've been on about what to call ourselves.

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