<p><em>This is a free preview of Reconstruction, a Slate Academy. Learn more at </em><a href="http://www.slate.com/reconstruction?utm_medium=link&amp;utm_campaign=reconstruction&amp;utm_content=non_member&amp;utm_source=podcast"><em>Slate.com/Reconstruction</em></a><em>.</p><p></em>Episode 1: Experiments in Land-owning: Davis Bend and Cameron Place</p><p>Some freedpeople ended up owning parcels of the land they had worked when enslaved. Some formed intentional communities to farm it. By the end of Reconstruction, most of them had no land to their names.</p><p>Amy Murrell Taylor is the author of <a href="http://www.amazon.com/dp/0807861863/?tag=slatmaga-20"><strong><em>The Divided Family in Civil War America</em></strong></a>.</p><p><em></p><p></em></p><hr><p style='color:grey; font-size:0.75em;'> Hosted on Acast. See <a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.</p>