Reconstruction: The Big Lie
Civics 101
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The Importance of Race in the United States
The abolitionist movement was a movement against slavery, and to say that slavery was wrong. But alongside that was also this movement that was about racially-quality and civil rights. And it's worth asking how did we get from race-based slavery to some kind of consensus that racial discrimination is wrong? That was not the direction that most white people were going.
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