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A 3 page review of the great experiment in teaching ex-slaves to live as productive and free human beings. Bibliography lists 1 source.
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much warranted in this endeavor because what it hoped to accomplish essentially went against the grain of everything that slavery had held to be characteristic of African Americans. Indeed,
the experiment started some three years before the Civil War was even over! Although the experiment was deemed successful, its life was quite short. Never-the-less, it held many
lessons that, if they had of been incorporated, could have been invaluable in post Civil War reconstruction. The Port Royal experiment was an attempt to prepare previous slaves for the
society that they would encounter after the Civil War. The experiment revolved around land ownership and the ability of prior slaves to work the land and profit from it.
Land, after all, was a symbol of freedom in American society. Slaves, of course, were not allowed to benefit from that symbol. Slaves were regarded as inferior
beings that were bought and sold like just another piece of the slave-owners material property and forced to work sometimes hard and grueling hours for no pay and little in
terms of provided sustenance. With the Port Royal Experiment, however, all of that would change. The islands in Port Royal Sound off the coast of South Carolina served as
the location of the Port Royal Experiment. Although it was not planned to occur as it did, the North prematurely inherited some ten thousand slaves when Northern troops attacked
St. Helena Island. The slaves lived on the islands tending the huge plantations of their owners. When the islands were attacked, however, the slave owners fled. In
doing so they abandoned not just their homes and land but also their slaves. Northern abolitionists took the slaves under their wings and began what is now known as
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