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Slavery In Chasing Freedom

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In the book Chasing Freedom there came a lot of huge changes for the freed slaves. Since they went from very hot to cold temperatures in the matter of a few days. The speed they started to learn how to survive in those climates was crazy . Plus going from living on a plantation where all they know was slavery to now being considered a “free” man or women was a lot for those people. They had to learn quickly how to gain money and how to build their own “homes”.They could finally walk around freely but had to deal with all the racism that still surrounded them day in and day out. That was extremely difficult for them because now they were considered “free” and they shouldn't of had to keep being harassed over the color of their skin. Many of

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