InflexionPoint Podcast: Cultivating Change from the Inside Out: Identity Theft: Enslavement and the Power of (re)Naming

Question of the Hour:

What role does identity play in the history of enslavement and reconstruction?

Identity Theft - Enslavement and the Power of (re)Naming

Freedman and the Battle of Reconstruction

Identity Hackers - Black Codes/Jim Crow

Civil War Amendments:

13th Amentment (1865) - abolish slavery (exception clause)

14th Amentment (1868) - citizenship, equal rights, legal rights

15th Amentment (1870) - guaranteed African American men the right to vote

Episode giveaways:

• Defining Freedom Part 1 https://www.facinghistory.org/resource-library/video/part-one-world-war-made
• Defining Freedom Part 2 https://www.facinghistory.org/resource-library/video/part-two-defining-freedom
• Melissa Harris-Perry Interview April 2013: Tarikuwa Lemma adopted at age 13 from Ethiopia and struggled through two failed adoptions in the United States. Stripped of her Ethiopian name and language. https://youtu.be/Bd4ip-2A5J8