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Reconstruction Updated Edition

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“One fact and one alone,” Du Bois wrote, “explains the attitude of most recent writers toward Reconstruction; they cannot conceive of Negroes as men.” — location: 139 ^ref-48670

Although Congress evinced no interest in doing any such thing, blacks throughout the South took up the cry of internal “emigration” in the late 1870s. — location: 11165 ^ref-10567

the Lake Mohonk Conference on the Negro Question, chaired by former President Hayes. — location: 11381 ^ref-2634

Ames lived to his ninety-eighth year, never abandoning the conviction that “caste is the curse of the world.” — location: 11390 ^ref-55389

Bitterness still lingered over the federal government’s failure to distribute land or protect blacks’ civil and political rights. “The Yankees helped free us, so they say,” declared eighty-one-year old former slave Thomas Hall, “but they let us be put back in slavery again.” — location: 11463 ^ref-16198