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Reconstruction was an economic revolution on a mighty scale and with world-wide reverberation. Reconstruction was not simply a fight between the white and black races in the South or between master and ex-slave. It was much more subtle; it involved more than this. There have been repeated and conti…

the United States in 1867 took a portentous forward step in democracy

The year 1867 comes. The election of 1866 has sent to the 40th Congress a Republican majority of 42 against 11 in the Senate and 143 against 49 in the House. The decisive battle of Reconstruction looms. Abolition-democracy demands for Negroes physical freedom, civil rights, economic opportunity and…

he told the crowd that Lincoln had been traduced when alive,

that the slaveholders’ rebellion was to sound the tocsin for a general holy war of property against labor