David’s Reviews > The Era of Reconstruction, 1865-1877 > Status Update
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"Lincoln approached the problem of reconstruction with 3 assumptions about the American Negro: (1) emancipation from slavery must be gradual; (2) colonization was the ideal solution to the race problem; and (3) colonization failing, the black man would have to accept an inferior status in American society."
— Feb 26, 2021 08:16AM
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"What, then, constituted the alleged brutality that white southerners endured? First, the freeing of their slaves; second, the brief incarceration of a few Confederate leaders; third, a political disability imposed for a few years on most Confederate leaders; fourth, a relatively weak military occupation terminated in 1877; and, last, an attempt to extent the rights of privileges of citizenship to southern Negroes.
— Feb 25, 2021 03:25PM
