Comments on: In defense of Radical Reconstruction: Part I http://rightwingliberal.wordpress.com/2008/04/24/in-defense-of-radical-reconstruction-part-i/ hide the decline Tue, 29 Dec 2009 15:07:45 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: Speaking of Reconstruction . . . « The right-wing liberal http://rightwingliberal.wordpress.com/2008/04/24/in-defense-of-radical-reconstruction-part-i/#comment-1909 Speaking of Reconstruction . . . « The right-wing liberal Thu, 01 May 2008 14:36:01 +0000 http://rightwingliberal.wordpress.com/?p=747#comment-1909 [...] too (note to the uninitiated reader of this space: where Reconstruction is concerned, Radical is not a perjorative term in this [...] [...] too (note to the uninitiated reader of this space: where Reconstruction is concerned, Radical is not a perjorative term in this [...]

]]> By: James Atticus Bowden http://rightwingliberal.wordpress.com/2008/04/24/in-defense-of-radical-reconstruction-part-i/#comment-1845 James Atticus Bowden Thu, 24 Apr 2008 23:25:12 +0000 http://rightwingliberal.wordpress.com/?p=747#comment-1845 DJ: We'll have to just agree to disagree about the Radical Republicans. DJ: We’ll have to just agree to disagree about the Radical Republicans.

]]> By: rightwingliberal http://rightwingliberal.wordpress.com/2008/04/24/in-defense-of-radical-reconstruction-part-i/#comment-1837 rightwingliberal Thu, 24 Apr 2008 20:04:25 +0000 http://rightwingliberal.wordpress.com/?p=747#comment-1837 I'm also glad to hear our friendship is intact. Excellent point about history nerds! I’m also glad to hear our friendship is intact. Excellent point about history nerds!

]]> By: rightwingliberal http://rightwingliberal.wordpress.com/2008/04/24/in-defense-of-radical-reconstruction-part-i/#comment-1836 rightwingliberal Thu, 24 Apr 2008 20:03:30 +0000 http://rightwingliberal.wordpress.com/?p=747#comment-1836 The point I was trying to make was that Reconstruction did not fail because of bad administration or implementation, but rather because southern whites adamantly refused to accept black political equality. On the margins, perhaps performance could have improved in this or that state, but overall, I would say the Radicals did just about as best they could. The point I was trying to make was that Reconstruction did not fail because of bad administration or implementation, but rather because southern whites adamantly refused to accept black political equality. On the margins, perhaps performance could have improved in this or that state, but overall, I would say the Radicals did just about as best they could.

]]> By: James Atticus Bowden http://rightwingliberal.wordpress.com/2008/04/24/in-defense-of-radical-reconstruction-part-i/#comment-1832 James Atticus Bowden Thu, 24 Apr 2008 18:56:27 +0000 http://rightwingliberal.wordpress.com/?p=747#comment-1832 DJ - you won't lose me as a friend. History nerds stick together. I don't follow where you disagree. Motives are harder to discern than actions. The actions were wrong and bad. The arguments used to justify Reconstruction were the Southern arguments that the South had seceded and become a foreign territory - the same arguments the North rejected when they invaded the South. Maybe you don't see the key point - the maladministration of Reconstruction resulted in a severe set back of race relations in the South. DJ – you won’t lose me as a friend. History nerds stick together.

I don’t follow where you disagree. Motives are harder to discern than actions. The actions were wrong and bad. The arguments used to justify Reconstruction were the Southern arguments that the South had seceded and become a foreign territory – the same arguments the North rejected when they invaded the South.

Maybe you don’t see the key point – the maladministration of Reconstruction resulted in a severe set back of race relations in the South.

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