Journey Stories Program Series: The First Year of Freedom in North Carolina: Pur

The First Year of Freedom in North Carolina: Pursuing Freedom with the Hoe and the Sword, the Book and the Lord

Dr. Reginald Hildebrand

Dr. Reginald Hildebrand, assistant professor of African and Afro-American studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and author of The Times were Strange and Stirring; Methodist Preachers and the Crisis of Emancipation (Duke University Press, 1995) “using first-hand accounts, Dr. Hildebrand will illustrate some of the ways in which freedom was experienced in North Carolina in 1865.”