Updated: 8:56 AM EST Feb 20, 2021 Lisa Robinson I-Team Reporter A log cabin built by former slaves in Maryland tells a story of the aspirations of Black people after emancipation.Chanell Kelton, one of the descendants who lived in the house, has tons of memories of growing up in the home. There were always big gatherings and family reunions, Kelton said.In 1875, it was the first house built in what became the free African American community of Jonesville in rural Montgomery County. It was named Jonesville for the brothers who built the house, Richard and Erasmus Jones.Paul Gardullo, the curator with the Smithsonian s National Museum of African American History and Culture who helped acquire the house in 2009, said the house tells a fundamental story that has been forgotten in America. (It s) about African Americans visions of freedom and their realizations of freedom in the period immediately following the Civil War, something we know as Reconstructi