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Yet page after page budiansky documents an ongoing and widely orchestrated attack on freedom in the reconstruction era south

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No less than renowned confederate general james longstreet summed up the realities of war the political questions of the war should have been buried upon the fields that marked their end

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The freedman and other victims of these unspeakable acts longstreet himself vilified for acknowledging that the south was a conquered people and thus subject to the whim of the victors and the country as a whole including the south so blinding was their hatred and irrationality paid the price for this ignorance

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What might be sadder still is how this hatred and ignorance continues today

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This account of some of the worst atrocities perpetrated on free negros and their white allies in the decade following the civil war by klansman and their kinsmen brings to mind the difficulties the usa has now in occupying iraq

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If the majority culture in the land being occupied is willing to kill to keep its power the occupier is doomed to eventual defeat

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You just cant kill every mayor shopkeeper and farmer in the land you want to reform and in the american south after 1865 thats what it would have taken for the yankees to prevail in the peace

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The kkk justified its terrorism via the bible and their traditional culture and stalled off racial democracy in their states for an additional century