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Argumentative Summary And The Reconstruction Act

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Ever Since the reconstruction acts were implemented, the union reformers have flooded my area. They have opened colored schools around the area and try to persuade my laborers to learn. As laborers began to sneak away to weekly lessons, I edited my contract to exclude all laborers from my plantation who pursued an education. The laborers have been scared into submission and the reformers have stopped in their efforts to educate them. The Republicans had provided equal protection for both me and my laborers in the law under the 14th amendment. Who knew that blacks would someday be put on the same legal level as me. The laborers argued argue that the punishments of the whip and other forms of beatings were unlawful. It may be unlawful, but the
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