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Non-Fiction

Martin68

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1. Lincoln's assassination and the failure of Reconstruction that followed guaranteed that America would not be able

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Sat Dec 30, 2023, 11:59 AM

Dec 2023

to properly deal with the enslavement of Africans and African-Americans and put this tragedy behind us. But the deep schism between the North and the South was there from before the founding of the Republic.

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