Article 6M30A Here Are 15 Freedom Towns That Kept Black People Alive After Slavery

Here Are 15 Freedom Towns That Kept Black People Alive After Slavery

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Jessica Washington
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This month in the year 1864, The Senate passed the 13th Amendment to abolish Human slavery in the United States. The House would follow suit the next year, setting the ground work for the emancipation of millions of Black people. As a result, Freedmen's Towns" built by and for formerly enslaved people began...

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