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Reconstruction: The Second Civil War
Watch the Program | Forty Acres and a Mule | Plantations in Ruins | Black Legislators | Northerners in the South
Access to Learning | Slave to Sharecropper | The Negro Question | In God We Trust | White Men Unite
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