the former slaves were forgotten in the North…

Book review:

Reconstruction After the Civil War

by John Hope Franklin

Eric Foner, foreword

Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 3rd edit., 1961, repr. 2013

Franklin changed the viewpoint of professional historians about the goals and failures of the Radical Republicans’ policies on “reconstruction” of the Confederate states after the American Civil War.

In the past historians reported the Reconstruction period as a politically motivated effort by Northern politicians to control the Southern states, with sometimes superficial attention to the concept and the abandonment of effectively giving millions of black Americans the right to vote.

Franklin’s thesis, in simplistic terms, is that contending political and business interests tried to pursue “reconstruction” to develop the economic capacity of the South, and the plight of freed slaves gradually slipped from the center of attention. The white folks who were leaders of the secession rather quickly resumed their control of the Southern states.

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by George Bernard Shaw

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