American experience. Reconstruction, the second Civil War. Interview with Drew Gilpin Faust, historian, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study. 1 of 2 / [produced by WGBH]
In the tumultuous years after the Civil War (1863-77), America grappled with how to rebuild itself, how to successfully bring the South back into the Union and how to bring former slaves into the life of the country. Faust talks about the impact of the civil war on women, what citizenship means after the civil war, planter Kate Stone, the cotton economy and slave ownership, fear of armed slaves, Stone family flees the south, denial and confusion after the civil war, southern whites defending slavery, making slavery consistent with Christian teachings
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