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This is a Freedmen’s school in Charleston, South Carolina. And what you are really looking at is a battlefield after the smoke cleared.
The war had ended only a few years earlier. Four million enslaved people had been releas...
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Public Historian and Journalist Democratizing History.
I grew up in Baltimore City and experienced it as a place yearning to relive a past glory rather than a crime haven. It makes me appreciate the nostalgia so many older people have and how it influences their worldview.
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