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So the rampant racism of Reconstruction was actually a step up from the Antebellum. Black people were immediately attempting to assert themselves in different areas to gain representation. That's not much--but I'm guessing that that was something to those people.
Having said that, I most definitely would've ended up a dead Negro if I existed back then.
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