• Frogmanfromlake [none/use name]@hexbear.net
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      2 months ago

      It’s a period of US history. Post-Civil War. I’m assuming she’s arguing against the amendments made for freed slaves during that time

      Edit: looks like she spends most of the argument making the case that the poor confederates were treated so harshly post-war when in reality the Republicans should have gone a lot harder

    • frauddogg [they/them, null/void]@hexbear.net
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      What is reconstruction ?

      The period that came after the Civil War and Emancipation Proclamation that should have seen the South rebuilt, and Black subjects of empire made not only whole, but equal to the white man. (Only part of one of these things actually happened.) Large parts of the efforts aimed at making newfound Freedmen whole would be scuttled by the klansman king Andrew Johnson and those to follow him; notable among the reforms that got the axe being Union general Ulysses S. Grant’s “Field Order 15”, which is where the ‘forty acres and a mule’ bit in Amerikan history sources from.

      I think only like ten Freedmen actually got that land and mule before Johnson deaded that order.