And both sides afterward held together -- imperfectly, sometimes uncomfortably. The leaders of the South largely attempted reconciliation /9
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2/x Reconstruction. I spend my days discussing every single enforcement statute Congress passed under the 13 14 and 15th amdts, beginning
3/x the first freedmen bureau bill Lincoln proposed before the end of the war all the way to the civil rights act of 1875. I've spent years
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4/x studying every Supreme Court case of that era from Blyew to U.S v Harris. I've spend an inordinate amount of time looking at the
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5/x constitutional conventions every former confederate state called after reconstruction in order to write new constitutions to enshrine
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