Join the John W. Kluge Center for an event exploring the ways that the United States grappled with the post-emancipation future for Black Americans. • Corey Brooks, York College of Pennsylvania (chair and moderator) • Frank Cirillo, University of Michigan • Myisha Eatmon, Harvard University • Sarah Gronningsater, University of Pennsylvania In the years preceding and during the American Civil War, antislavery reformers began to imagine what a world without slavery might look like—what shape a post-emancipation society might take. As such ideas clashed with realities in the wake of wartime emancipation, activists came to understand the ways in which the struggles for Black freedom and justice would be ongoing.