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by ANGELA P. DODSON , October 2, 2008

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Johnson, who is a professor of performance and African-American studies at Northwestern University, adapted some of the material into a one-man touring show,“Pouring Tea.”

Freedom: A Documentary History of Emancipation, 1861-1867: Series 3, Volume 1: Land and Labor, 1865, by Leslie S. Rowland, $85, University of North Carolina Press, (September 2008), ISBN-10: 0807831476, ISBN-13: 978-0807831472, pp. 1112.

A critical turning point in history springs to life in this compilation of documents culled from a vast store of records, letters and testimony in the National Archives, accompanied by essays for context. The work expands an important series about the transition from the enslavement of Blacks to what passed for freedom after Reconstruction. This volume is the first of two to focus on the struggle to establish a new systemof labor and land rights and the first published atUNC.

—Angela P. Dodson is an online editor for Diverse: Issues inHigher Education.

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