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S4 E4: The Second Revolution
Scene on Radio: Capitalism
The Freedman's Bank Account in Beauford, South Carolina, 1869
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Reconstruction is fundamentally a story about democracy. It's about who will have a role in american democracy going forward from the civil war. Land and education, i think yore sort of hand in hand. Education had allowed people to um in the past, to rise up through society. But also land. The people that were the most powerful and rich in the old south had been the big landowners. And just their example,. they were literate and they had land. This was something that the freedmen could aspire to, and they did. For a time, it looked like these things would now become available to four million black people across the southern U.S.
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