We’ll continue to build on Part 1, beginning with some of the immediate results of the end of the Civil War.
A Brief History of Lynching
During the twelve year period (1865-1877) known as Reconstruction in U.S. history, many former slave owners, who had lost both the war and their primary means of economic success — slave labor — chose to reconstruct the…
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