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You’re almost cool sometimes PugJesus
Hey, whatever differences we have, I think everyone on here worth a moment’s consideration agrees:
Fuck slavers, and let them swing from the gallows.
If you’re interested in that kind of history you may like “Black Reconstruction in America” by W.E.B. DuBois. Really eye opening book for me, made me realize how whitewashed a lot of the history from then is, at least in how it’s taught today.
I may pick it up at some point. The failure of Reconstruction to deliver on the initial promise of a racially integrated society is a constant topic of interest to me, especially seeing as so many of our modern problems trace in some part back to it.
Oh yeah then absolutely do. The whole focus is about the truly revolutionary aspects of that era, that were subsequently quashed as the Union was far more pro-“unity” than they were pro-freedman, going way too soft on the south after the war and how the same ol’ power structures took hold again.
More like … we’ll give you a reprieve and let you exist in the shadows … not like you’ll ever come back anyway right? … right?
Won the war, lost the peace.
General Grant, notably, at several points made the demand for ‘unconditional surrender’ of Confederate forces, which dovetailed nicely with his initials - US Grant.
For his part, he did as much as could be expected of a man who was not really a born politician - when he became president, he pushed to outlaw segregation(!) and outlawed the KKK, with mass arrests by the military and prosecutions for terrorism.
Unfortunately, it wouldn’t outlast his presidency - one of the first things his successor did, even, was withdraw troops from the South even in the face of a new troop surge initiated by Grant in response to white supremacist paramilitaries
Correction:
They receive ASHES.
