Today's Out of the Box looks at two local government records that illustrate the uncertainty of life for African Americans after Emancipation.

http://www.virginiamemory.com/blogs/out_of_the_box/2015/09/16/reconstruction-era-violence-2/

Learn more about the challenges African Americans faced after Emancipation by checking out the Library of Virginia's current exhibition Remaking Virginia: Transformation Through Emancipation.

http://vamem.com/remakeva





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