Side of the river. This structure was donated to us about 10 years ago by the descendants of the original founders of that congregation. They bought the land in 1870 two parcels of land with the express purpose of building a house of worship. And in the sale document which we have from the courthouse, they named their structure they named their congregation the antiyokut baptist congregation, and that message of being against the yoke, or against slavery, is something that is important for our story here. And this is a Significant Church for newly freed slaves on the east bank of the river, and so it is really important here in talking about the lives of people who socked freedom after the end of the civil war. We like to start our tour of the whitney plantation here, where we can kind of the what happens to people, some of the things they care about after freedom came. The whitney plantation is the only to show in that is all of these things help us tell we had to build things here an
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Nations history from 1783 to 1861, the political history of our nation. I guess i want to say if youre looking at american politics from the beginning strawing through, past the civil war, youre talking about par dockses and conflicts improv. The period i tend to focus on more at the early part of that arc, and its the improve vacational nature of that, that fascinated my more than anything else of. The nation was find founded in a world of monarchy and the United States was a republicful. What that means wasnt clear and people knew they were trying to do something that wasnt there. The president wont be a king but beyond that there was a lot of open ground. So theres a lot of improv in those early decades about what the nation is, how it functions, the tone of the government , and how this nations going to stand up amongst the nation of the world that are other kind of nations. What does it mean to be a republic in a world of monarchies and how is the new nation going to get any degre