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Generations Later: Has Once-Remote Promise Of Freedom Been Fulfilled?, Edward L. Ayers
Generations Later: Has Once-Remote Promise Of Freedom Been Fulfilled?, Edward L. Ayers
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Emancipation began with a flickering promise, burned intensely for a few years during Reconstruction, and then smoldered for a century. Equality and justice have come into view for most African-Americans only in the past two generations. For many descendants of slavery, those essential rights of a free people are still hard to see.