1865 president Abraham Lincoln called for Americans to

loose their hatred to one another and to become

charitable in order to be firm in seing that the rights

that God put in store for each of us are seen in the

right way. He called for all to bind up everything that

was lost in the war and look to the future so that they

would have peace among themselves as a nation and with

other nations in the world. but there was a real big

problem as to reconstruction that would not be solved by

words only but by actions. The south was physically

devastated and socially emanispated, how would they

reconstruct this? There was also the question of how

liberated black men and women would fare as free men and

women. The southern states had to be rerintergratted

back into the union and above all they did not know who

would direct the whole reconstruction process.it is

obvious that with all these prospects at hand that there

would be someone gaining and someone loosing.

The slaves had at this point already been freed, but

with all the emancipation and hatred towards them in the

south they were somehow forced to be re-enslaved. Not

laborers. In addition, the advantage of regulating

occupations provided them with laborers. In South

work was often regulated. Many white southerners

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