Kidada Williams
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Then they shot him and cut his throat.
They had balls of turpentine and lit them.
I remember someone saying, asking a question, you got to say master?
And somebody answered and said, nah.
Sarah Jane Patterson, enslaved in Georgia.
They're faced with a constellation of options and decisions.
The author of I Saw Death Coming, a history of terror and survival in the war against Reconstruction.
And professor of history at Wayne State University.
First, you go find your loved ones who were sold away from you.
They rush into securing housing.
Doing what they can to acquire land, finding employment.
oppressing lawmakers to make sure that their rights are protected.
And they have to do this because every single move they make is contested.
Reconstruction was an effort to reconcile the outcomes of the Civil War.