50 pages into Race and Reunion and it seriously already calls into question your claims about both sides having a commitment to states’ rights and notes the Republican ideological commitment in the aftermath of the US Civil War as strongly in favor of social integration, dedication to freedmen’s rights, an appetite for vengeance upon a defeated South, and the strong political hand of the Republicans other than Andrew Johnson’s inconvenient ass sitting in the presidency.
But considering one of my core proposals for the divergence of Reconstruction was Hannibal Hamlin as Lincoln’s VP, that reinforces the point I was making from the very start.
50 pages into Race and Reunion and it seriously already calls into question your claims about both sides having a commitment to states’ rights and notes the Republican ideological commitment in the aftermath of the US Civil War as strongly in favor of social integration, dedication to freedmen’s rights, an appetite for vengeance upon a defeated South, and the strong political hand of the Republicans other than Andrew Johnson’s inconvenient ass sitting in the presidency.
Those first few years, the Johnson years, were hopeful times. Circa 1870, things are clearly different. IIRC, middle of the book. It’s been awhile.
But considering one of my core proposals for the divergence of Reconstruction was Hannibal Hamlin as Lincoln’s VP, that reinforces the point I was making from the very start.