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A Long Retreat: Episodes 3 and 4 of Reconstruction: America After the Civil War - The Journal of the Civil War Era
To catch up, you’ll find Millington Bergeson-Lockwood’s review of Episodes 1 and 2 here. No matter how “bitter the chastening rod,” to borrow from the Black National Anthem, the second part of the Henry Louis Gates’s documentary on Reconstruction shows how African Americans kept fighting well after the Compromise of 1877. Part two of this … Read More Read More