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History of American Slavery

The documented history of slavery in the United States and the policies that shaped Black wealth after emancipation.

African American cotton pickers posed in Savannah, Georgia, between 1867 and 1890

Slavery Era

The Economic Legacy of American Slavery

Forty-acre land order for Richard Brown, James Island, South Carolina, April 1, 1865

Reconstruction

The Land That Was Promised: What Happened to Forty Acres and a Mule?

Freedpeople by the canal in Richmond, Virginia, 1865

After Emancipation

From Emancipation to Exclusion: The Policies That Shaped Black Wealth

Currier and Ives' 1872 lithograph of the first Black senator and representatives in Congress

Reconstruction

Reconstruction: The First Attempt at Repair