Reconstruction Era: A False Dawn of Freedom?

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With the end of the Civil War, four million formerly enslaved people in the South were now free. It was the beginning of a remarkable experiment: rebuilding the South on the foundations of freedom and equal citizenship. For a brief moment, the United States of America begins its first real attempt at establishing a multi-racial democracy. Our guest today is Bradley Rebeiro, Associate Professor of Law at BYU Law School. He is the author of ‘ Until the Last Yoke is Broke: The Constitutional Vision of Frederick Douglass ’, which is out on September 29th of this year. Edited by Aidan Lonergan. Produced by Tomos Delargy. Senior Producer was Freddy Chick. Sign up to History Hit for hundreds of…