Reconstruction Needs to Be Distinguished Term Paper

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Southerners did not flock to become Republicans as the North desired, but when they were allowed to be Democrats, they worked hard to restore legitimate legislation and patriotism.

Meanwhile the attitude of Southerners toward the Blacks remained the same as before the war. Declaring a people free did not erase the subordinate and inferior image that the Whites had of the Blacks. Even those blacks who had served in the military faced persecution and prejudice. A Colonel Whittlesey testified before the Joint Committee on Reconstruction in 1866 and described several acts of violence he had witnessed:

Another case is that of Charles Everett, late 2d sergeant in the United States colored troops. Mr. Everett, since his discharge, has lived in this town, a quiet, peaceful citizen, has taken to himself a wife, and attended to his own business. He has had no quarrel nor unpleasant controversy with anyone, white or black. Hence his colored neighbors were surprised at the attack upon him.... His dwelling was forced open. He was ordered to get up. He came out of his bedroom, when one inquired. 'Is this Sergeant Everett?' He replied, 'Yes'. Then the same man... felled him to the floor by striking him over the head with the butt of his gun. He knew nothing more, and lay for some time insensible and nearly dead. It was a severe wound, though the skull was not fractured, as first thought.

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He is still confined to his house from the effect of it.... Yet no action, as we can learn, has been taken to bring them to justice. Neither Mr. Everett nor his neighbors can divine any cause for this unprovoked and uncalled for attack, only that he has been a faithful solider in the Union army, and since his return home has been called by his friends and neighbors by the title he bravely won while in service." (Mintz. 2006)

Poverty and hatred permeated the atmosphere in the South, mills and industries were shut down and unemployment created discontent. The original wealth of the South was her agriculture, however, and this eventually became the life-blood for the actually reconstruction of the South's social and economic fabric. The policy of Reconstruction decided upon by the United States government had been a failure and it took the South a long time to recover.

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