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The author maintains that the forces (racism, greed, etc.) which scuttled the Reconstruction of the American South also were responsible for the removal of indigenous peoples from the majority of the American West.

The impact of Reconstruction on the American South can best be gauged by the expeditiousness of the State of Mississippi's ratification of the Thirteenth Amendment. That amendment, eliminating slavery, was ratified by Mississippi in 1995, a mere 130 years after the end of the Civil War.