How We Get Free
The struggle for black liberation is bound up with the project of human liberation and social transformation.
On April 12, 1865, the American Civil War officially came to end when the Union Army accepted the unconditional surrender of the Confederacy on the steps of a courthouse in Appomattox, VA. The Union Army, led by two hundred thousand black soldiers, had destroyed the institution of slavery; as a result of their victory, black people were now to be no longer property but citizens of the United States.
Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor October 26, 2015
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