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said, Once let the black man get upon his Two Abolitionists Who Spoke Out
person the brass letter, U.S., let him get an
eagle on his button, and a musket on his Red Grooms. Frederick Douglass 1818-1895, 2009
shoulder and bullets in his pocket, there is TOP, Sojourner Truth, 2016
no power on earth that can deny that he has
earned the right to citizenship.
Immediately following the war,
Congress, populated solely by representatives
from the North, imposed a series of re-
quirements on the South known as Recon-
struction. These regulations were meant to
create a path for Southern states to rejoin the
Union but were more often perceived as a
means of control and restitution for the war.
Southern states, fueled by resentment, began
passing Black Codes that were intended to
return freed slaves to an approximation of
their former condition of enslavement. Pres-
ident Andrew Johnson, Southern Democrat
and former slaveholder, attempted to block
the progress of Reconstruction and was
impeached in 1868 as a result. He escaped
being convicted in the Senate by one vote
and served out his term.
The Compromise of 1877 enabled Re-
publican Rutherford B. Hayes to assume the
Presidency in exchange for withdrawing the
Federal troops remaining in the South, thus
the Reconstruction Era formally came to an
end. Politicians in the South then imposed a
new system of white supremacy in the form of
Jim Crow laws. Though the Union had been
preserved, the burning promise of the Civil
War, ennobled by terrible sacrifice, would
become “a dream deferred.”

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