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- Subject for Reconstruction, 1866-1868 - This ramshackle building housed freed people in Florida. The man and child sitting on the front step likely called it home. They raised chickens and protected them in a triangle coop in the yard and in nesting boxes on stilts under the shade tree (perhaps an orange tree). They faced an uncertain future as the national government sought equality while others opposed rights expansion for freedmen.
- 1866-1868
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Subject for Reconstruction, 1866-1868
This ramshackle building housed freed people in Florida. The man and child sitting on the front step likely called it home. They raised chickens and protected them in a triangle coop in the yard and in nesting boxes on stilts under the shade tree (perhaps an orange tree). They faced an uncertain future as the national government sought equality while others opposed rights expansion for freedmen.