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Voices/C-SPAN/African Americans, Emancipation, and Defining Freedom

Podcast · 413 episodes on record

African Americans, Emancipation, and Defining Freedom

African Americans, Emancipation, and Defining Freedom

Published

April 5, 2020

Length

55 min

Type

Full

Position

77 of 413

April 5, 2020

African Americans, Emancipation, and Defining Freedom

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Summary

Virginia Commonwealth University Professor Nicole Myers Turner taught a class on the lives of formerly enslaved African Americans following emancipation. She explained how they defined freedom for themselves while the federal government debated political and legal definitions. Professor Turner also discussed the important role of religious and educational institutions in newly freed African American communities.

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