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PowerPoint_War_Reconstruction__Reparations3.pptxWar, Reconstruction, Reparations
Dr. G. J. Giddings
CIVIL WAR
Secession
11 states: SC … TN
Cataclysmic
700,000 casualties
Assassination
CIVIL WAR
Black Service
186,000
134K Southerners
1862
(Ohio: 3rd/1st)
CIVIL WAR
“Once [you] let the black man get upon his person the brass letters, U.S., let him get an eagle on his button, and a musket on his shoulder and bullets in his pocket, there is no power on earth that can deny that he has earned the right to citizenship”
-F. Douglas
CIVIL WAR
Black Service
White leadership
Pay disparities
$7 v. $13/month
“Passing”
Susie B. King Taylor
Nurse, 33rd Colored S.C.
Harriet Tubman
Nurse, cook, spy, scout
Denied denefits
CIVIL WAR
Emancipation? Proclamation
1863
Rebel states
3.5 million ‘slaves’
CIVIL WAR
Emancipation?
CIVIL WAR
CIVIL WAR
Pres. Abe. Lincoln
Republican
Colonizationists
“I will say then that I am not, nor ever have been, in favor of bringing about in any way the social and political equality of the white and black races” 1858
Reconstruction/Reparations?
Rep. J. Conyers
Rep. S.J. Lee
C. Ogletree
R. Robinson
The Debt …
The Reckoning …
Reconstruction/Reparations?
1865-1877
Dept. Of the South
1862-’65
Field Order #15
1865
Gen. W.T. Sherman
“40 acres & mule”
Reconstruction/Reparations?
13th Amendment
1865. Freedom
14th Amendment
1868. Citizenship
15th Amendment
1870. Franchise
Reconstruction/Reparations?
Freedman’s Bureau
Gen. O. Howard
Southern Homestead Act, ’66
Freedman Bank
F. Douglas, ‘77
American Baptist Home Mission
Shaw, Morehouse, Benedict
American Missionary Association
Berea (1855), Fisk, Hampton, Tougaloo, Avery …
Reconstruction/Reparations?
Black Majority
S. Carolina, 58%
Mississippi, 53%
Louisiana, 50.1%
Reconstruction/Reparations?
Black Reconstruction, ‘1865-’77
1,465 elected
14 Representatives
2 Senators (MS)
H. Revels, B. Bruce
Lt. Gov. (LA) P.B.S. Pinchback
Reconstruction/Reparations?
Radical Republicans
1865-1877
Civil Rights Act ’66
Defined citizenship
Reconstruction Act, ‘67
Enforcement/1st KKK Act/CR,1870
Black State Legislative Agenda
Business & Industry
Public Education
Mental Health
Disability
Criminal Justice
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Reconstruction Betrayed
1877 Pres. Election
R. B. Hays, Repub.
S. Tilden, Dem.
