thought i found it out of more than 120 volumes, four instances of testimony from blackmon themselves, these first person testimonies. two were from block sailors from new york, and to or from black sergeants who have been captured in alabama, by confederacy forces. this about as long as his detail as we get in the official records. there are two sergeants, sergeant bakr and leach, and what they tell us reveals a lot. first that these men are being put to labor by the military, and being forced to labor on railroads, they're being forced to do work for the military itself, and for the confederate war effort. also being returned to former enslavers, at least 250 according to buccaneer and leach. sergeant leach sorry. so we know what's happening. also that some of these men are being reclaim by people who are claiming to be foreman slavery but in fact are not. also that these men are able to escape, and some of these men are being sent into hospitals to be able to be treated. so the small snippets open up this whole idea of what was going on for these men, that they were experiencing th

by 1867, 4000 blackmon add their names to their voting polls. -- not prepared for -- who was born a slave, near georgia. close to the civil war, he moved to now the alabama, and in 1867, he organized the first baptist church for african americans. tallahassee funds from the friedman bureau, operated a school in that. from 1870, up to 1872, he himself served as the county representative and the alabama house representative. in 1883, -- college educational association, and build the myles borough school as a separate building. the 1870 church, and the last birth school or on the national register, and still stand today. well with the voting hand, the african americans of course supported the republican party. because that was the party that he delivered them from our slavery. but then, democrats seized the states party -- democrats -- by gerrymandering the congressional district and by expelling black legislators, that replace -- the republican party crashed. in 1901, local crust insurgency of the state constitution, provision which required odors to pay a dollar 50 cumulative poll tax. pas

i'm wondering, i mean nobody would understand blackmon more than a black woman, so is there an effort to focus on that and get the guys back into camp, because we are going to need everybody. you are looking at the run numbers, the overall numbers over the nation, we can't afford to lose anybody. i was wondering if you are making an effort to do that, and thank you, and i will take off the air. >> thank you for the question. what i will say, i think there is an issue around, not just men in general. when you look at black man, let me offer this, black man voted for biden at a higher percentage than any other constituency group in this country. white men, white women, let next, native americans. black man voted at a higher percentage rate for biden, than any other constituency group in this country, with the exception of black women. and i'm raising that because i do think that there is something that you raised. there's something to unpack. i think there are three court pieces. one, i think we don't need to exaggerate that 80% of support for any candidate or party is actually extraord

invariably, they talk about the fact that black women are more reliable voters in many instances then blackmon. how has the voter suppression from jim crow forward treated women differently than? >> question. one of the things that we know at of the lessons of 1920 is that part of what voter suppression seems to do is in a sense treat women just as it treats than. and so for example, in 1920 there will be southern legislatures the quickly have to amend their whole tax provisions which had been written as a deposition on man as a requirement of men, now have to be written to now also apply to women. so there's a way in which voter suppression has historically look to innocence override differences of gender. but there is no question from my research that african american women face a distinct set of risks when it comes to political activism. when it comes to work in the political sphere. when it comes to come out to the polls. there's a denigration that the women of the national association of colored women are all too familiar with. it's part of binds them together. that is to say, the kind of

and says, if we create an army of black men, so your black and listened men in their officers have blackmon, that would just terrify the south and it would help lead to the end of the war. and we know this through the lane memoir which was published in 1883. he gives a very long description of this conversation. and according to the lady, lincoln turned to him and says this is the idea i've been wanting to hear for a long time, and no one's ever come up with, it i'm glad that someone has finally done this. and shortly after this conversation, elaine receives a commission as an officer in the union army. there is some question about the timing, because by february or march of 65 i don't know that lincoln would've needed that kind of army, at that point. he can kind of see the handwriting on the wall in terms of where the war is going. but it is beyond doubt that lincoln met with delaney, and that they had this conversation, and shortly after, delaney got the commission he had asked for. i answered all the questions in the top? one of the back there? or a piece? what's the story? sure. >> so

so in this man, for example, said something like i or regard capturing blackmon as capturing property and not as capturing soldiers, it is not the policy or interest of the south to destroy the black man. on the contrary, it is to preserve and protect him. he is not being force issues and he wasn't being hypocritical in his own estimation, humid though he said this several months after the massacre were the majority of the black forces didn't fact, i in a moment of catcher. this idea that restraint and violence could be used throughout the water, is vital to the confederacy. so i argue that restraint serve the purposes of confederacy, as much as violent state. and that black p.o.w. survived, because of this restraint, also made use of their knowledge on the confederacy, in order to navigate it. so the confederacy used past presidents of internal slavery in warfare. in the war of 1812, for example, in the second seminal war, there were instances of the united states trying to get compensation for a state and slapped people. basically, those who escaped to the enemy, so i would a lifeti