Article: One Town's Blueprint for Reconstruction

Mitchelville

Article: One Town's Blueprint for Reconstruction

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The American Battlefield Trust provides an article, writer unknown, that offers a comprehensive historical account on Mitchelville, one of the first self-governing communities of formerly enslaved African Americans, located on Hilton Head Island, South Carolina.The summary considers the significance of Mitchelville during the Civil War, in addition to highlighting the social and political decisions that dictated African Americans' lives during and after the war in this town. Several historical pictures are also included in this article.

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