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Chapter Summary Of Reconstruction By W. E. Blight

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What I believe Blight wants us to see that he takes from this book. Is the way he looked at how presidents engaged the civil war and how slaves and ex-soldiers reacted to certain situations. Blights will analysis the Civil War as reconciliationists, white supremacist, and emancipationist. We will know that all of these ideas will combine over time. How he describes reconciliationist is how the war caused a lot of damage and death. The white supremacist is described in the book as terror and violence and how are country made a turn and became a segregated nation. As far as reconciliationists and white supremacist. I believe in his book will dominate the emancipationist form that he talks about in his book. This is why he talks that the North and South, had to forget about what had happened in the past and especially when he talks on black equality. In the opening chapters they talk about how Woodrow Wilson took a cruise and when he traveled to Yorktown sites, and how he went unrecognized by the variety of local people …show more content…

As they talk about the Reconstruction they talk on how a nation could be reconciled and come together after a bloody Civil War. It was a time of great pain, and no answer to provide for what was happening. For Southerners this deeply sadden them. W.E.B Du Bois wanted us to understand that Reconstruction era was a time to rebuild, but he understood that it left to many terrible wounds and that in the schools textbooks left the wrong message to children learning about the civil war. Along in chapter two Blights shows us that emancipationist image are kept amongst ex-slaves, it lost much of its white support and political power. This is why when he talks about Reconciliation because it is about the healing, and allowing racial injustice of the supremacist movement. This is how he relies on diaries, books, poetry and papers from different people to construct on how the struggle was after the

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