HIST206 Chapter Notes - Chapter 16: Colfax Massacre, Electoral Fraud, Southern Democrats
14 Apr 2016
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Thomas fortune felt that this incident (black children fought back against the white children for the irst ime) encapsulated the dilemma of reconstrucion. Thomas- obtained job as a printer for the new york sun. White southerners and the ghosts of the confederacy, 1865 16. 1. Ater the war the south was hit prety hard. The break up of families through death. Hit prety hard: farmstead were stripped of everything but the soil, infrastructure (railroads) were damaged, factories and machinery were demolished, 5 million bales of coton had gone up in smoke. The phrase many white southerners applied to their civil war defeat. They viewed the war as a noble cause and their defeat as only a temporary setback in the south"s ulimate vindicaion (robert e lee patron of this cause) More than freedom: african american aspiraions in 1865 16. 2. To black southerners that civil war was the war of liberaion not a lost cause.
