I am genuinely interested. I have tried some searches but so far am coming up short. The only thing I could find so far is the Daniel Perry pardon, which is not so clear cut. If you have some links, I would appreciate it.
I am genuinely interested. I have tried some searches but so far am coming up short. The only thing I could find so far is the Daniel Perry pardon, which is not so clear cut. If you have some links, I would appreciate it.
I am sorry that I only just saw your comment. I don’t know where you live nor your education. Very briefly, the Union won the Civil War but lost the peace.
In other words the racial culture of the South continued without legal slavery. The South’s defeat in the Civil War was excused for a number of reasons. The South as an economic region was the poorest in the country.
As America became an industrial power and cotton became a commodity product the South settled into a culture of racial hierarchy enforced by community violence- lynching and other techniques of torture-murder.
The world advanced, African Americans made progress in sports and the arts nationally.
Read Huckleberry Finn, Faulkner and Kevin Kruse (a fine historian on the Princeton faculty.
I am genuinely interested. I have tried some searches but so far am coming up short. The only thing I could find so far is the Daniel Perry pardon, which is not so clear cut. If you have some links, I would appreciate it.
I am sorry that I only just saw your comment. I don’t know where you live nor your education. Very briefly, the Union won the Civil War but lost the peace.
In other words the racial culture of the South continued without legal slavery. The South’s defeat in the Civil War was excused for a number of reasons. The South as an economic region was the poorest in the country.
As America became an industrial power and cotton became a commodity product the South settled into a culture of racial hierarchy enforced by community violence- lynching and other techniques of torture-murder.
The world advanced, African Americans made progress in sports and the arts nationally.
Read Huckleberry Finn, Faulkner and Kevin Kruse (a fine historian on the Princeton faculty.