Reconstruction
The time following the Emancipation Proclamation was at first a time when the color line was blurred. Blacks and whites intermingled freely, more so then ever before, yet these interactions were not representative of the South accepting the freedman into society. The Black Codes were enacted so that the former enslaved was not treated as equals in social and political relations. During the Reconstruction the freedman was searching for the meaning of his freedom and the responsibility it brought. The emergence of people trying to profit off the instability of the South added upon the troubles. Groups rose up in the South speaking out against the blacks and Northern influence. The freedom which the freedman sought was not truly found until he gained his enfranchisement. The new voters became a point of debate between the Republicans and the Democrats. The most significant strides toward equality came through education which was previously unavailable to the blacks. The growing division of whites and blacks became evident but it was always present. Immediately following their emancipation the blacks of the South made an effort to take part in every thing kept for them in slavery. The freedman took active roles in politics
Douglass, Frederick. (N/A) Race & Ethnicity: Douglass: Reconstruction. Retrieved February 4, 2001. from the World Wide Web: http://eserver.org/race/reconstruction.html. In the newly written constitutions the Southern states had to allow for public education. By allowing for free education to all the hope was to help educate and assimilate the former enslaved into the community. Still even this benevolent action was questioned as parents did not want the children of different colors interacting.9 Every where an observer looked there was evidence on the growing divide that was the color line. In trying to help the problem there still arises issues that seemingly will not be unheard. 2 John Hope Franklin, Reconstruction After the Civil War, 2nd ed. (Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1994) 49. 4 Douglass, Frederick. (N/A) Race & Ethnicity: Douglass: Reconstruction. . Retrieved February 4, 2001. from the World Wide Web: http://eserver.org/race/reconstruction.html. 1 Eric Foner, Reconstruction America's Unfinished Revolution, ed. Henery Steele Commager and Richard B. Morris (New York: Harper and Row, 1988) 118. Current, Richard Nelson. (1988). Those Terrible Carpetbaggers. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
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