After Slavery: Race, Labor, and Politics in the Post-Emancipation Carolinas
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Unit One: Giving Meaning to Freedom
Unit Two: Freed Slaves Mobilize
Unit Three: Land and Labor
Unit Four: Freedom, Black Soldiers, and the Union Military
Unit Five: Conservatives Respond to Emancipation
Unit Six: Pursuing Citizenship, Justice, and Equality
Unit Seven: Gender and the Politics of Freedom
Unit Eight: Planters, Poor Whites, and White Supremacy
Unit Nine: Coercion, Paramilitary Terror, and Resistance
Unit Ten: Freedpeople and the Republican Party
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About the Exhibit
This online exhibition and educator resource series focuses on the complex history of emancipation and the period of Reconstruction that followed the American Civil War. After Slavery showcases a rich collection of source materials organized for high school and college/university classroom use. Originally published 2006, redesigned for LDHI in 2013-2014. Updated 2016.
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Project Partners: Queen’s University Belfast, Lowcountry Digital Library, College of Charleston, Lowcountry Digital History Initiative, Avery Research Center for African American History and Culture, Program in the Carolina Lowcountry and Atlantic World, South Carolina Digital Library, W. E. B. Du Bois Research Institute at Harvard University, and Institute for Southern Studies at the University of South Carolina