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Reconstruction with Jamelle Bouie

You're Wrong About

CHAPTER

Confederacy and Black Coats

The fact that the planter class retained control of its land meant that england should force the formerly enslaved back into economic and social relations which resembled slavery. The southern states with a bunch of former confederates back in office begin passing what are called black cotes. Black coats are basely attempts to control black labor for the sake of these landowners who now can't legally coerce formerly enslaved through the institution of slavery, but are using now snane power to do it for them. O basicaly just re enslaved black children can be taken from their families and made to work.

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