Rachel Swarns, RealClearPolitics
Note: The following is an excerpt from Rachel Swarns book, "American Tapestry: The Story of the Black, White, and Multiracial Ancestors of Michelle Obama."Freedom came to Jonesboro, Georgia, in that spring of 1865, during those hardest of hard times. The town was in ruins, its buildings shattered by cannon fire. The fledgling green fields had been decimated by drought and hunger rippled through the land. Everywhere Southerners turned, people were moving. Many newly freed slaves were dropping their hoes and packing their sparse belongings. They were walking away from the parched...
Note: The following is an excerpt from Rachel Swarns book, "American Tapestry: The Story of the Black, White, and Multiracial Ancestors of Michelle Obama."Freedom came to Jonesboro, Georgia, in that spring of 1865, during those hardest of hard times. The town was in ruins, its buildings shattered by cannon fire. The fledgling green fields had been decimated by drought and hunger rippled through the land. Everywhere Southerners turned, people were moving. Many newly freed slaves were dropping their hoes and packing their sparse belongings. They were walking away from the parched...
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