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It was about the post-Civil War period and the political resistance, particularly from Southern states, to the newly adopted constitutional amendments abolishing slavery and guaranteeing racial...
Jan 21, 2021 · What Reconstruction teaches us about white nationalism today. Historian Eric Foner on the long tradition of white nationalists clashing with Black people exercising their rights.
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Dec 15, 2015 · Likening the Freedman’s Bureau to a New Deal agency without a precedent to follow, Foner explained that reconstructing the nation meant reimagining what the federal government was capable of. As Congress put the broken country back together, lawmakers also created something new of the United States.
Their vision was of a nation of equality, where race did not become the determining factor in what rights you had, in which everybody born in the United States was a citizen of the United States. They had a alternative Constitutional vision.
If the emphasis on the role and perspective of blacks is Reconstruction's pre- dominant feature, the fate of what Foner calls the "free labor ideology" is its main theme. According to his own study of the Republican party in the 1850s, free labor was the party's basic tenet.
Mar 28, 2015 · Reconstruction refers to the period, generally dated from 1865 to 1877, during which the nation’s laws and Constitution were rewritten to guarantee the basic rights of the former slaves, and...
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Sep 17, 2019 · Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Eric Foner talks how the 13th, 14th and 15th Amendments relate to current debates about voting rights, mass incarceration and reparations for slavery.
