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This is a free excerpt of Episode 5. To hear more, join Slate Plus --> slate.com/reconstruction
The collapse of the antebellum Southern legal order left freedpeople exposed to violence from whites desperately trying to re-establish racial hierarchies. Some black people tried to defend themselves, acquiring weapons and forming militias. How common—and how effective—was that strategy?
In Episode 5 of Reconstruction: A Slate Academy, Rebecca Onion and Jamelle Bouie are joined by Kidada Williams, author of They Left Great Marks on Me: African American Testimonies of Racial Violence from Emancipation to World War I.
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This is free excerpt of Episode 4. To hear the entire series, join Slate Plus --> slate.com/reconstruction
Formerly enslaved black Americans held a majority of the seats in South Carolina’s state Legislature in 1868, and no other state elected as many black Americans during the Reconstruction e…
This is a free preview of Reconstruction, a Slate Academy. Learn more at Slate.com/Reconstruction.
Episode 1: Experiments in Land-owning: Davis Bend and Cameron Place
Some freedpeople ended up owning parcels of the land they had worked when enslaved. Some formed intentional communities to farm it.…
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