# Visions and Realities of Black Freedom in the 19th Century

The John W. Kluge Center hosted an event exploring the ways that the United States grappled with the post-emancipation future for Black Americans. In the years preceding and during the American Civil War, antislavery reformers began to imagine what a world without slavery might look like and what shape a post-emancipation society might take. As such ideas clashed with realities in the wake of wartime emancipation, activists came to understand the ways in which the struggles for Black freedom and justice would be ongoing.

- Kind: Talk
- Year: 2024
- Runtime: 1 h 2 min
- By: Brooks, Corey
- Archive: [Library of Congress](https://www.loc.gov/item/video-10076/)
- Licence or status: Rights statement at the Library of Congress (as the archive states it)
- Credit: Library of Congress
- Who can watch: Teens profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

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