American experience. Reconstruction, the second Civil War. 1 of 2
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In the tumultuous years after the Civil War (1863-77), America grappled with how to rebuild itself, how to successfully bring the South back into the Union and how to bring former slaves into the life of the country. Painter talks about the link between Reconstruction and democracy, freedom and lost friends and family, changes in labor, Gertrude Thomas and shock at discovering slaves were not happy working for her, competition for work, black soldiers as liberators and the Mass 54th, whites disturbed by black soldiers, the land crisis, Tunis Campbell and black settlement, how complexion can divide black people.
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36 minutes
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