Du Bois wrote of post-Civil War Reconstruction: “the slave went free stood a brief moment in the sun then moved back again toward slavery.” A reckoning so profound and exact, in creating and fulfilling the antithetical to what is dismantled, that it can offer redemption along with emancipation.Įric Foner’s “The Second Founding” is the account of this nation’s post-Civil War constitutional reckoning – the beauty of redemption in its egalitarian promise, and the tragedy in its unfulfillment. Radical members of the first legislature after the war, South Carolina.Ībolition is a reckoning.
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