![]() ![]() If, in retrospect, the outcome of the postemancipation struggle appears all but inevitable, it is equally certain that Reconstruction transformed the lives of southern blacks in ways unmeasurable by statistics and in areas unreachable by law. ![]() The Bureau, Foner summarizes, was “criticized in traditional accounts for excessive radicalism and regarded by revisionists as a sincere effort to ameliorate the legal, educational, and economic plight of the freedmen.” The post-revisionist take of the 1970s? The Bureau was seen “as a practitioner of racial paternalism, working hand in glove with the planters to force emancipated blacks back to work on the plantations.” Pioneers like Du Bois and Taylor saw the period in the context of the struggle for black freedom and equality.Ĭonsider the Freedmen’s Bureau, the federal agency most famous for promising “forty acres and a mule” to emancipated blacks. ![]() Taylor challenged the traditional picture of the post-Civil War era, they were largely ignored until what some have called the Second Reconstruction, the Civil Rights era of the 1960s. While African American scholars like W.E.B. Taylor saw the period in the context of the struggle for black freedom and equality. ![]()
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