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The Importance of Reconstruction
In the late 19th century people who lived through reconstruction were writing about these times too. Carter G. Woodson was one of the first black people to get his PhD from Harvard and his parents were enslaved. WB Du Bois's work on Reconstruction is so formative for the scholars who come after him. Their work is important for creating the black Counternarrator within the historical scholarship as intellectuals.