How did newly freed African Americans and their descendants seek to define themselves after Emancipation?


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How did newly freed African Americans and their descendants seek to define themselves after Emancipation?


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The transition from enslavement to freedom for millions of African Americans was fraught with political, economic, and social tensions. How did newly freed African Americans and their descendants seek to define themselves after Emancipation? What barriers did they encounter as they asserted their newfound freedoms?