• PugJesus@piefed.socialOPM
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    2 days ago

    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.

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      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.