[lbo-talk] End of Black Reconstruction (was Why I Hate Courts --orhow judicial review destroyed the country)

[Michael Dawson]

Nathan also views Reconstruction too narrowly -- as being just a matter of
"turning slaves into voters."  Of course, what Reconstruction was really
about was turning slaves into voters AND landowners.  The latter half of
that formula never got off the ground.  Grant's troops started giving
slavemasters "their" plantations back before the dust from the war had even
settled.