“These African-American tenant farmers, plantation employees ... labor and worship since before the Civil War,” Lindstrom wrote. After the war, by 1868, almost 3,000 Black people owned ...

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The Black church has long played a significant role in supporting faith and the fight for Civil Rights in America, with its ...

That before the war, the difference between black ... The aftermath of the Civil War... brought black folk into political power in a number of places in the South. The first South Carolina state ...