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Reconstruction: America After the Civil War
Reconstruction | Part 1, Hour 1
Season 2019
Episode 1
The aftermath of the Civil War was bewildering, exhilarating . . . and terrifying. African Americans had played a crucial role in saving the Union and now, as the country grappled with the terms and implications of Reconstruction, they struggled to breathe life into their hard-won freedom. The result was a second American Revolution.
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Racist imagery saturated popular culture and Southern propaganda manipulated the story.
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Hour three of the series examines the years 1877-1896
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Post-Civil War America was a new world.