Port Royal Experiment

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The Port Royal Experiment was a Civil War–era program in the Union-occupied Sea Islands of South Carolina in which formerly enslaved people worked abandoned plantations for wages and began building autonomous Black communities, serving as an early test of Reconstruction policies.

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