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Lectures in History

African Americans, Emancipation, and Defining Freedom

Lectures in History

C-SPAN

History, Politics, News

4.1696 Ratings

🗓️ 5 April 2020

⏱️ 55 minutes

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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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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This is American History TV's Lectures in History podcast.

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This week, a class on the lives of formerly enslaved African Americans following emancipation,

1:12.1

including the important roles of religious and educational institutions in newly freed African American communities.

1:17.7

This is taught by Virginia Commonwealth University professor Nicole Myers-Turner.

1:24.7

All right, so today we're going to be talking about the meaning of freedom.

1:28.6

And I wanted to capture our sort of earlier discussions about the meaning of freedom when we thought about free communities, free black folks in the north

1:32.9

and in the south and how we kind of came up with this way of representing freedom as freedom

1:38.4

with the line through it, not quite freedom to freedom, right? This question of freedom and what did it mean.

1:45.5

And so for today, we're going to be talking about what did freedom mean,

1:50.3

and in particular, when we're thinking about what did freedom mean to the free people, right?

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