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Newly freed formerly enslaved people were eager to build networks of learning, commerce, and politics during Reconstruction immediately following the American Civil War. Dr. Thulani Davis, a professor and a Nellie Y. McKay Fellow in the Afro-American Studies Department at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, joined host Dr. Mark Anthony Neal to discuss her latest book, "The Emancipation Circuit: Black Activism Forging a Culture of Freedom," published by @DukePress.

Learn more about Prof. Davis here: https://africanamericanstudies.wisc.e...

Find her book here: https://www.dukeupress.edu/the-emanci...

Directed, produced, and edited by Eric Barstow, M.F.A

Left of Black is a web series featuring interviews with Black Studies scholars produced by the John Hope Franklin Humanities Institute at Duke University.

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