specially set aside to accomplish this task. he has our utmost gratitude. sherman orders 400,000 acres of land once owned by slaveholding planters to be divided up into 40-acres plots for freedmen, but after the war, the order is revoked and the land returned to plantation owners, just one of the many broken promises of reconstruction. savannah is ours, general. thank god no lives will be lost today. sherman s march makes it possible for lincoln to push the 13th amendment through congress, abolishing slavery for good. it also allows ulysses s. grant to corner robert e. lee and force the confederacy to surrender. gentlemen, general grant.
to get their groove on and, of course, praise jesus. all right. basically at first, with the plantation owners, we would be back near the woods and have church. ad as time progresses they would let us have a place of worship. we put together a slab building. it was market so it could be marked so it could be a secret? this was our moment to escape reality. for that brief moment we would shout all night long. and it was a moment that we can feel like we re not enslachld. enslaved. what does this music mean to you all? heritage is something that we teach. we are embracing because we are not ashamed of what we have accomplished and where we came from. we are preserving. we have fun, but we try to educate our young folks. and all of us are from the
does this mean that. that we re free? that s not my part to say. it is for the president. despite his rank, benjamin butler has no strategic military experience, and is considered a disaster on the battlefield. but his tenacity as a lawyer and deft political mind allow him to identify escaped slaves as contrabands of war. butler s controversial decision would eventually inspire thousands of slaves to cross union lines, creating a path for lincoln to entertain the idea of emancipation. butler s fort monroe doctrine has an immediate impact on the confederacy. when the union navy invades south carolina s sea islands, plantation owners leave behind 10,000 slaves. these new contrabands begin to grow and harvest cotton and other crops for the union,
dried into chunks that rubber producer middle men pay a good price for. to make their work easier plantation owners get rid of the vegetation surrounding the trees. some and various use herbicides because they like to keep things tidy and at the same time it makes the rubber easier to cultivate so the farmers have to get in close to the trees to do their work and obviously the undergrowth gets in the way it s easier without the undergrowth. but maintaining the undergrowth on the plantations would actually help defuse the situation with the invading elephants. francisco harvey has noticed that the elephants aren t especially keen on rubber. they leave the trees alone when they find something better in the undergrowth such as grass or bananas. and the giant animals rarely eat young trees when they re out
time on it till club in those days the plantation owners relaxed here over a game of billiards. the laundry might be drawing that today but in those days that s where the colonial rulers watched horse races everything was to be like a home away from home it s rare for horse races to take place here these days. things follow a slower pace on the race tracks these days. another relic from the british period treeline because most sophisticated golf club.