Now Playing: Louis Armstrong and Sy Oliver’s Orchestra, “Go Down Moses,” 1958 (original, 1862) How Free is Free?: Emancipation and Reconstruction Lecture.

Now Playing: Louis Armstrong and Sy Oliver’s Orchestra, “Go Down Moses,” 1958 (original, 1862)

How Free is Free?: Emancipation and Reconstruction

Lecture Outline: feliciaviator.com/history7B/schedule or bcourses

Leaving the old plantation

The Family Ideal, lithograph marketed to former slaves, ca. 1866

Freed men and women electioneering in the South, ca. 1868

“Plowing in South Carolina,” 1866

Winslow Homer, “A Visit From the Old Mistress”

Southern farmer and sons, ca. 1865

“The Great Labor Question from a Southern Point of View,” Harper’s Weekly, July 1865

Sharecropper picking cotton, Georgia

Vagrancy Law prisoner “auction,” 1866

Burning of a freedman’s schoolhouse, Memphis Riots, 1866

Federal agent of Reconstruction promoting peace in the South, 1868

“The First Vote,” Harper’s Weekly, 1867

First African American U.S. Senator and Representatives

“Murder of Louisiana,” pamphlet, 1871

A member of the Ku Klux Klan in disguise, Tennessee, 1868

Campaign of terror during the election of 1876

“Colored Rule,” Harper’s Weekly , 1874

“The Overthrow of Reconstruction,” Harper’s Weekly, 1876