Digital History: Meaning of Freedom: Black and White Responses to End of Slavery

Confederate defeat and the end of slavery brought far-reaching changes in the lives of all Southerners. The destruction of slavery led inevitably to conflict between blacks seeking to breathe substantive meaning into their freedom by asserting their independence from white control, and whites seeking to retain as much as possible of the old order. This exhibition looks at the differing responses of blacks and whites to the end of slavery. Includes many primary source images.