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The Angry Scar - The Story of Reconstruction (Hardcover, New ed of 1959 ed)
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The Angry Scar - The Story of Reconstruction (Hardcover, New ed of 1959 ed)
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Another volume in the excellent Mainstream of America series, this
deals with what is again a live issue in the American scene, the
ten years associated in the minds of the South, both black and
white, with Reconstruction. Hodding Carter does not pretend to have
written an original analysis; he has succeeded admirably in
assessing and balancing the varied viewpoints of the historians who
have dealt exhaustively with the period. And he presents his facts
in a way to make only too evident the reasons for the survival
today of the bitterness engendered then. He starts with Lincoln's
speech expanding his inaugural address statements of the goal of
reconstruction - and from there goes on to a thoughtful study of
the elements of resentment, North and South, and the seeds of
discord that his death nurtured. The enactment of the Black Codes
in the South, the unbalanced expansion of the role of the
Freedman's Bureau, the encroachment of the civil rights of Southern
whites, the growth of violence - and the men who became the
symbols:- Thad Stevens, Ben Butler, Charles Sumner. Then the
process of ratification of the 14th amendment, now once more a red
flag - and the conflict internal, external, at high level and low.
Military occupancy, radical control, the burgeoning of the
carpet-baggers and the scalawags, the disillusionment of the
liberals, the failure of the experiment in education- and the
reasons behind each element of the total picture - all merge into a
grim picture which provides the foundations of today's concepts.
There were men- and women- who contributed to the rebirth of the
South- but they are forgotten when balanced against those who
harmed her. Jim Crowism was born and nurtured. A distinct cultural
pattern was fixed upon the South. The achievements of
Reconstruction- and they were many-were balanced out by the
failures. This is a useful book for the students of the issues
confronting us today. It should be read by North and South,
unpalatable to both as much of it will be. (Kirkus Reviews)
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