Reconstruction
Chronicles how Americans responded to the changes unleashed by the Civil War and the end of slavery.
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What Hacker News says
- Nice summary! Next read ‘Forever Free’ by Eric Foner to learn about Reconstruction. Those two books should be required reading in American high school history classes.
- Race is the modality by which class is primarily expressed in America. There is no way to resolve socioeconomic problems without dealing with race at the same time, clearly demonstrated multiple times in US history. The failure of Reconstruction -- an "Unfinished Revolution" as Eric Foner puts it -- was precisely white workers' rejection of class solidarity with Black workers in favor of post-war white racial reconciliation.
