Join historian Nelson D. Lankford for the fascinating story of how the Confederate capital’s citizens, white and Black, faced their future in the wake of Union victory. In April 1865, the Civil War that had consumed the lives of the residents of Richmond, Virginia, for four years ended in a vast conflagration that nearly destroyed their city. As Confederate troops fled and Union forces streamed in, the world Richmonders had known literally went up in flames. None could predict what would replace

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