Finding Freedom After Civil War: The Sumter Freedmen´s School
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Date: January 26, 2020 Contact:Jennifer Hopkins, 229-924-0343 x. 201 Finding Freedom After Civil War: The Sumter Freedmen`s School Special Program to be presented at 11:00 a.m. on Saturday, February 1st at Andersonville National Historic Site ANDERSONVILLE, Georgia - At the end of the Civil War, thousands of African American men, women, and children who had been enslaved since birth were suddenly thrust into a radically changed world. What challenges did newly freed people in and around Andersonville face as they carved out new lives in a post-Civil War South? How did they rebuild families broken by slavery? Dr. Evan Kutzler,...