The Importance of Race in Reconstruction

The shift to the reconstruction era raises a question like what did the reconstruction framers mean. The whole question of race was so infused in all of these struggles and the way you tell it reconstruction is very much a repudiation of apartheid which could not be about race blindness absolutely i mean there's abundant evidence just in the constrained world of talking about congressional debates in 1865 and 1866 that shows that the republicans did not require a race blind approach to policy.