Story very closely connected to his own personal story about this child. He began volunteering eventually where he became a seasonal, worked there for a number of years and then became a permanent historian. He has been there now 16 years, 14 years excuse me. Sharing this story. The story of the people affected by the presence of those armies has gone untold. Fortunately emmanuel has brought that story to the forefront. He is here today to talk to us about one of the other enduring legacy of war, that is, the Freedmens Bureau. The very question during the war is what is going to happen with all of these emancipated slaves. The Freedmens Bureau was an attempt to answer that, and the manual will discuss that very complicated answer. [applause] i am not sure how people deal with this traffic on the north side of richmond. It seems like just now whenever you leave richmond you better plan on a year to get where it normally takes 10 minutes to get to. I am certainly happy that i made it, i
Stephen its get started for today then. This is our first class about reconstruction. I want to first go back and talk about the war. What the war had been fought for. The war from the unions point of view Abraham Lincolns point of view was a war of reunion. Over time the war becomes a war to stamp out slavery. The victories of union armies on the battlefield doesnt in itself resolve either one of those issues. That is what we are going to talk about we talk about reconstruction. Giving practical meaning to reunion. The Humpty Dumpty question, how do you put the union back together after civil war that has lasted for years . The cost may be 750,000 lives in total. How do you put the union back together . What i want to talk about today is the second of those two issues, the second aim of union policy. The goal of destroying slavery. What is that going to mean practically . What is freedom going to mean for 4 million former slaves in the United States . We talk in prior weeks about what
About the war. What the war had been fought for. The war from the unions point of view abraham lakins point of lincolns point of view was a war reunion. Over time the war becomes a war to stamp out slavery. The victories of union armies on the battlefield doesnt in itself resolve either one of those issues. That is what we are going to talk about we talk about reconstruction. Giving practical meaning to reunion. The Humpty Dumpty question have you put the union back together after civil war that has lasted for years . The cost may be 750,000 lives in total. Had he put the union back together . What i want to talk about today is the second of those two issues, the second aim of union policy. Destroying slavery. What is that going to mean practically . What is freedom going to mean for 4 million former slaves in the United States . We talk in prior weeks about what slavery was and we talked about in various aspects. It affected every aspect of american life, politics, culture, society. T
Particularly what the war had been fought for. Remember the war from the , unions point of view Abraham Lincolns point of view was a war of reunion. A war to stamp out recession. Over time, it becomes a war to stamp out slavery. The victory of union armies on the battlefield doesnt, in itself, resolve either one of those issues. That is what we are going to talk about we talk about talk about when we talk about reconstruction. Giving practical meaning to reunion. Think of this as the Humpty Dumpty question. How do you put the union back together after a civil war that lasted four years . The cost may be 750,000 lives in total. How do you put the union back together . That is what we will talk about next time. What i want to talk about today is the second of those two issues that the war raises. The second aim of union policy. In the civil war, their goal of destroying slavery. What is that going to mean . Practically what is freedom , going to mean for 4 million now former slaves in th
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