While legally free, they faced a much desired but challenging prospect of actually living free in a country that had prospered from their labor, had grudgingly granted that freedom and regarded them as less than human. And, for the last 157 years this country has wrestled with the threads of racism and injustice that are woven deeply into its fibers.
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