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SUNDAY, FEB. 6, 2011 THE LEAF- -CHRONICLE A3 FROM THE FRONT FREED FROM PAGE 1 "We started out as strangers, but we started working for a single purpose," Judy Williams said about FREED'S beginning. "Our whole purpose is to educate people and expose the complete history of that time." As Union soldiers arrived in the South during the Civil War, many slaves fled their masters and joined the army. Others escaped to the North before the war began. But some blacks were free in the Civil War era because they worked for many years to save enough money to purchase their own freedom.

Other free blacks were the children of plantation masters and female slaves. Discovering details of the women they portray was an emotional experience for the FREED reenactors. "I must say it's almost a spiritual experience," said Williams, who portrays The Black Swan, singer Elizabeth Taylor Greenfield. "You're giving voice to people who, at that time in history, were not able to express themselves freely." Alma Harris chose to portray Susie King Taylor, a nurse to wounded Civil War soldiers, because she, too, has a caregiver's personality. Helen Hassell said she has the soul of a teacher, like the "character" she portrays, Mary Smith Kelsey Peake, a renowned renegade educator who died in 1862, before the end of the Civil War.

Zsun-nee Matema, herself a community activist, portrays writer, lecturer and political activist Frances Ellen Watkins Harper. "When started bringing my own ancestry out of the shadows and into the light, I realized there's more and more that needs to be told," Matema said. "It is spiritual. You make connections with these women, and it reflects back on your own family." Ruby M. Thomas, the first female minister in GREG LEAF-CHRONICLE Richview Middle School students listen to a group of women and one man from the "Female Re-Enactors of Distinction" on Thursday.

9000 play of sweetgrass basketry at Saturday night's Civil War-Era Freedman's Cotillion at the Riverview Inn. BETH LEAF-CHRONICLE Patricia Tyson, member of the Female Re-Enactors of Distinction, left, and LaVerne Walker look at a disher own Methodist church, portrays Amanda Berry Smith, who became a world renowned minister after beginning her life in slavery in 1837. "These people are lost somewhere, and we bring them back to life again," Thomas said. "Our recreation of them is a tribute to what they went through." Education is among the issues FREED explores in its performances. Before the Civil War, teaching blacks to read or write was against the law.

Underground schools taught the lucky few, while others endeavored to teach themselves using books they had to keep hidden away. "Like there was a strong desire for freedom, there was a strong desire to learn," Williams said. "We began to realize if we could read, if we could write, we could influence our future." Although 150 years have passed, the time seems short when one realizes that the horrors of slavery occurred just a few generations ago. "Any time you can stand people on an auction block and pull on them and look in their mouth like a horse or a piece of cattle and then say the mother goes this way, the father goes that way and the children go another way, what a family tragedy." Williams said. "We were treated like LOTTERIES TENNESSEE Saturday midday: Cash 3: 9-3-5 Cash 4: 3-6-4-5 Saturday evening: Cash 3: 7-9-2 Cash 4: 4-2-4-2 Friday evening: Tennessee Cash: 15-18-23-29-32 Mega Millions: 06-20-29-48-55 06 KENTUCKY Saturday midday: Pick 3: 9-8-1 Pick 4: 9-1-7-0 Saturday evening Kentucky Lottery numbers not available by press time.

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Williams, members of the Female Re-Enactors of Distinction of Washington, D.C., chat before dinner at the Civil War-Era Freedman's Cotillion Saturday night at the Riverview Inn. we had no mind, no lion slaves freed by the "Today, we're asking feeling, no family con- Thirteenth Amend- mothers, grandmothnection." ment to the United ers: Teach the next said after the States Constitution in eration. Don't let them Civil War, blacks were 1865. get away," said Patricia wandering the country "There were every- A. Tyson, who portrays aimlessly," Bobbie Coles day women who were illustrious educator said.

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