husband andaria's her brother decide to take hands. into their own to a nearcrenshaw pulp very crenshaw's mel burns down.- mill burns that seems, in fact, to cancel the goodwill that the adams family has within the community. apparently, they have gone too far in seeking justice themselves. the jury refuses to convict john crenshaw. instead, charles and his brother, nelson, are brought to eventuallyhey are sent to prison. there are limits in which black people can respond to this violence. the level of violence grows continually. if we want to think again of this long emancipation as a period between the revolution and the emancipation, we can understand in many ways the civil war as an extension of that. it is a process in which black able take the lead -- black people take the lead. lincoln and his advisers and generals at the beginning of the war insist this is a war for union and a white man's war. we know that black people insist the opposite. they are willing to put their life on the line, offering their army at to the union the