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Newly liberated black people with all they own are packed onto a boat on Richmond’s Kanawha Canal as the charred ruins of the city stand in the background in this photograph, circa April-June 1865.

Newly liberated black people with all they own are packed onto a boat on Richmond’s Kanawha Canal as the charred ruins of the city stand in the background in this photograph, circa April-June 1865.

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When Freedom Came, Part 2

The Free Press presents a series chronicling the black experience during the liberation of Richmond in April 1865 and the end of the Civil War.