Newly freed formerly enslaved people were eager to build networks of learning, commerce, and politics during Reconstruction immediately following the American Civil War.
Dr. Thulani Davis, a professor and a Nellie Y. McKay Fellow in the Afro-American Studies Department at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, joined host Dr. Mark Anthony Neal to discuss her latest book, The Emancipation Circuit: Black Activism Forging a Culture of Freedom, published by Duke University Press.
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