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

Michael Dawson MDawson at pdx.edu
Thu Nov 18 11:25:59 PST 2004


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.



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