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Welcome to The Dig, a podcast from Jacobin Magazine. My name is Daniel Denver and a broadcasting

from Providence, Rhode Island. Tulani Davis has told the story of reconstruction that you probably

haven't heard. When at least 400,000 enslaved people escaped to union lines after the onset of

the Civil War, followed by the emancipation of another three and a half million black people,

the South and the United States as a whole were changed forever. Freed people built organizations,

organizing skills and political theories that would guide black struggle during reconstructions

heyday of black republican political power through reconstructions brutally violent defeat

on to the multiracial populist labor and farmer movements of the late 19th century,

through the anti-winching organizing of the early 20th century, the civil rights movement of the

mid 20th century and really to the present day. Davis is the author of the emancipation circuit,

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