aderson francois  🇭🇹 14th Amendment Baby

And both sides afterward held together -- imperfectly, sometimes uncomfortably. The leaders of the South largely attempted reconciliation /9

1/x Ms Noonan, all due respect this is getting silly to the point of stupidity. My job is to research, write and teach slavery, the war, and

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

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

5/x constitutional conventions every former confederate state called after reconstruction in order to write new constitutions to enshrine

6/x racial apartheid into their systems. I've studied every line of the black codes these states produced. And after all of that, permit me

7/x me to tell you your points simply have no basis in history, law or fact. The reconciliation you speak of was achieved and designed only