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.
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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