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This is the John Fuglesang podcast.

Welcome back to Sirius XM. I'm John Fuglesang.

Somewhere on the Beaufort River is Port Royal, which was the key to an island complex that became a humanitarian mission, an experiment that was both a federal military installation and a colony for former slaves.

It was there in Port Royal and the other South Carolina Sea Islands, African-American slaves first worked this soil as free laborers.

By the end of 1864, there was close to 15,000 freed people living on the islands alongside teams of northern white agents, teachers and businessmen and plantation managers, missionaries.

And this transformation defied expectations. It led to incredible social progress and crushing injustice.

And it's been criminally undocumented in our schools and civil war studies.

Bennett Parton is an assistant professor of history at Georgia Southern University.

You may have read his stuff in the Washington Post, the LA Review of Books.

He holds a PhD in History from Yale, and he's currently working on a book called Somewhere Toward Freedom, Sherman's March, and the Story of America's largest emancipation coming out next year

from Simon & Schuster. It is a great pleasure to welcome Professor Bennett Parton to Sirius XM.

Hey, thanks for having me. Thank you for joining us. This story's fascinating, and I'm so

embarrassed by how little of its history I've known. You've written about the Port Royal Experiment.

I know you did your thesis on this. Let've written about the Port Royal experiment. I know you did your

thesis on this. Let me begin with the most basic questions. How did this period of history come to

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