What makes a place a land of opportunity? During this Parked at Home talk, rangers from Blackstone River Valley National Historical Park and Reconstruction Era National Historical Park will discuss issues related to land and labor at two historic sites.

In the years following the end of the Civil War, workers in the Blackstone Valley continued their struggle to secure basic rights in the workplace. Thousands of miles away, recently liberated people in the South Carolina Lowcountry pursued the opportunity to own land and to exercise the rights of citizenship. How did the trade in cotton connect these two places, and what social conditions set them apart?

This program is presented as a collaboration between Blackstone River Valley National Historical Park, Reconstruction Era National Historical Park, and Blackstone River Valley National Heritage Corridor.