American experience. Reconstruction, the second Civil War. 1 of 3
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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. Walker talks about expectations of freed slaves, failure of Sherman's General Order 15, freedmen wanted wives at home, Andrew Johnson out of step with his party and unwilling to do anything for blacks at the national level, black consumers undermining the notion of black dependence on whites, Northern anxiety about blacks moving north for work, Thirteenth amendment, radical republicans, suspicion of President Johnson, Fourteenth amendment, what is citizenship?, riots and southern intransigents.
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