(December 3, 2022 at 1:53 pm)Dio Wrote:(November 27, 2022 at 9:10 pm)Rev. Rye Wrote: Even then, the "conquest" wouldn't happen until 1865, a bit less than three years after the Emancipation Proclamation was written. And even then, the South was treated surprisingly leniently.
I agree the South treated more lenient under Lincoln and Johnson than it otherwise would have been,
One of the great what-ifs of US history: what if Thaddeus Stevens, through some weird concatenation of events, had been president during Reconstruction (with a working majority in Congress)? One outcome seems certain: you’d be a lot further along on that civil rights thing than you are now.
Boru
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