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Identity Theft: Enslavement and the Power of (re)Naming

Published: Dec. 15, 2021, 11 p.m.

Question of the Hour:
What role does identity play in the history of enslavement and reconstruction?

Identity Theft - Enslavement and the Power of (re)Naming
Freedman and the Battle of Reconstruction
Identity Hackers - Black Codes/Jim Crow

Civil War Amendments:
13th Amentment (1865) - abolish slavery (exception clause)
14th Amentment (1868) - citizenship, equal rights, legal rights
15th Amentment (1870) - guaranteed African American men the right to vote