This, I did know, like many weird things about DC history, it was weird nonsense to preserve racism.
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There's a plaque marking the occasion in Old Town today The first causalty of the War Between the States A remarkably petty and wholly characteristic incident in the history of the South
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I've been researching reconstruction lately, it was such a tumultuous time where the country really really could have been starkly different. Just a few more men like Sumner and Stevens and a misfiring pistol could have made all the difference.
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I mean, I yearn for a history where the 14th was as broadly interpreted as Sumner intended for it to be understood. (Although, you know, also treating women as people would have made it even better.)
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