Black History Month - Day 15

What Do You Do With 4 Million Freed People?

By the end of the Civil War, or the Second War for Independence, there were roughly 4 million newly freed people. This was a refugee crisis the size of which history has rarely seen. Imagine 4 million people that are now legally free. What does a nation do in response? How do you help them and give them an opportunity?

The period from 1865 to 1877 was kn…