Everything Was Going to Change Now - Part 2

Enslavement, Lynching, Terror, and 2024

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…