A Second Civil War? (w/ Jamelle Bouie)
Know Your Enemy
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The Reconstruction Era Was a White Supremacy Historiography
The pre existing historiography of reconstruction was truly a white supremicis. Histories suggested that newly elected black representatives in the south were like corrupt, iniquitous, incapable. And so therefore the jim crow era was justified. De boyse was writing in the context of. Sines a book called the prostrate state by some having a main republican who had turned against grant and turned against reconstruction.
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