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8. Reconstruction did NOT address the salient issues...
Thu Aug 17, 2017, 08:39 PM
Aug 2017

With Lincoln out of the picture, very little federal help was given to freed slaves in the way of education (reading, writing, math), trade-skills instruction, or anything to assist their entry into the American mainstream.

Instead of "40 acres and a mule," there was segregation (in many Northern states as well); an entire people became "slaves without masters," cursed to slug it out for more than a century for mere crumbs of full citizenship and basic human respect.

Had Lincoln not been assassinated, Reconstruction might have been carried out much differently, to greater positive effect. All a sad mystery now.

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