Learning from the Stories of the Formerly Enslaved

Please welcome Jasmine Holmes to The Preamble!

Today’s post is written by Jasmine L. Holmes, a writer and educator on Black history in America. I invited her to share here about the topic of her new book, Yonder Come Day: Exploring the Collective Witness of the Formerly Enslaved, which highlights the stories from more than three thousand interviews.

The tiny boat was shrouded in inky darkness as the …