This is a free excerpt of Episode 5. To hear more, join Slate Plus --> slate.com/reconstructionThe collapse of the antebellum Southern legal order left freedpeople exposed to violence from whites desperately trying to re-establish racial hiera

Reconstruction | e4 | Experiments in State Politics

Dec 14th, 2017 23m 23s

This is free excerpt of Episode 4. To hear the entire series, join Slate Plus --> slate.com/reconstructionFormerly enslaved black Americans held a majority of the seats in South Carolina’s state Legislature in 1868, and no other state elected

Reconstruction | E1 | Experiments in Land Owning

Oct 26th, 2017 1h 9m

This is a free preview of Reconstruction, a Slate Academy. Learn more at Slate.com/Reconstruction.Episode 1: Experiments in Land-owning: Davis Bend and Cameron PlaceSome freedpeople ended up owning parcels of the land they had worked when ens