About This Lesson
This lesson is part of Facing History’s work on the Reconstruction era, and part of a series of video-based web lessons. Use this lesson towards the beginning of a Reconstruction unit and engage students in a discussion about the meaning of freedom and how freedpeople sought to define freedom after Emancipation. In addition to the suggestions below, see Lesson 3 in The Reconstruction Era & the Fragility of Democracy for more resources and background information about the ways that freedpeople and the federal government sought to define the meaning of freedom after Emancipation.
