HIST 119: The Civil War and Reconstruction Era, 1845-1877
Lecture 23 - Black Reconstruction in the South: The Freedpeople and the Economics of Land and Labor. Professor Blight begins this lecture in Washington, where the passage of the first Reconstruction Act by Congressional Republicans radically altered
the direction of Reconstruction. The Act invalidated the reconstituted Southern legislatures, establishing five military districts in the South and insisting upon black suffrage as a condition to readmission. The eventful year 1868 saw the impeachment of
one president (Andrew Johnson) and the election of another (Ulysses S. Grant). Meanwhile, southern African Americans struggle to reap the promises of freedom in the face of economic disempowerment and a committed campaign of white supremacist violence.
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Lecture 23 - Black Reconstruction in the South
Time
Lecture Chapters
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1. Introduction
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2. Implications of the Four Reconstruction Acts
[00:10:49]
3. The Impeachment Process for Andrew Johnson
[00:27:50]
4. The Election of Grant in 1868 and the Advent of the Ku Klux Klan
[00:47:40]
5. The Second Reconstruction's Impact on Freed Slaves and Conclusion