Reconstruction gets a bad rap. A lot of people really tried but had the legs cut from under them
Lincoln had "freed" the slaves in the Rebel states with the Emancipation Proclamation
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so that set it up so if they let slavery continue it would be like giving them back their slaves as a reward for losing
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few slaves had actually literally been freed during the war but it was on paper so
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mostly to hurt rebel morale and dry up their resources back home.
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that is true
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