Reconstruction
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This is a free excerpt of Episode 5. To hear more, join Slate Plus --> slate.com/reconstructionThe 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...
Published 01/01/18
This is free excerpt of Episode 4. To hear the entire series, join Slate Plus --> slate.com/reconstructionFormerly 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...
Published 12/14/17
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 PlaceSome freedpeople ended up owning parcels of the land they had worked when enslaved. Some formed intentional communities to farm it....
Published 10/26/17