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Local Politics and Black Freedom After the Civil War

July 10, 2019June 30, 2019 Karen Cook Bell Activism, black politics, economic justice, landownership, Politics, race, reconstruction, Resistance, South, voting

On June 4, 1870 Joshua C. Legree opened an account with the Savannah, Georgia branch of the Freedmen’s Bank. Three

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Deferred Freedom Dreams in the Quest for Black Economic Citizenship

May 8, 2019May 8, 2019 Westenley Alcenat Constitution, economic justice, law, Racial Capitalism, slavery

A little more than 153 years ago, in the aftermath of the Civil War, Radical Republicans in the United States

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Frederick Douglass, Family, and Biography

April 26, 2019October 31, 2019 Ezra Greenspan #DouglassForward, race, Resistance

*This post is part of the online forum on The Futures of Frederick Douglass. The contributions in this forum each

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Frederick Douglass and the Periodization of Reconstruction

April 25, 2019April 22, 2019 Doug Egerton #DouglassForward, black politics, Frederick Douglass, race, Resistance, slavery

*This post is part of the online forum on The Futures of Frederick Douglass. The contributions in this forum each

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The Futures of Frederick Douglass: An Introduction

April 22, 2019April 22, 2019 Hélène Quanquin, Cécile Roudeau, and Michaël Roy #DouglassForward, abolitionism, Frederick Douglass, slavery

*This post is part of the online forum on The Futures of Frederick Douglass. The contributions in this forum each

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