Resistance among Africans can be traced all the way back to the 1600's in Africa when they were captured and bound together on slave ships to face the harsh realities of The Middle Passage and The New World. Centuries later, even after the Civil War (the war that was so called fought to "free slaves" but in actuality was fought over power and control by two separate factions of the ruling class) Africans were still resisting. ... They believed that by enlisting in the fight against "slavery" or the plantation slave economy, they were proving their right for citizenship...

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The initial goal of reconstruction was to redistribute the South's social structure and wealth to that disenfranchised the former African American slaves. ... A quote I enjoyed from the article is as follows: "The work they so bravely wrought has been destroyed and the gigantic power for evil is now advancing step by step in its lawless march to victory." ... Although I don't doubt that these sort of going-ons were probably common place towards many Northerners, the author speaks about them as if they were some sort of secret conspiracy involving secret meetings and codes. ...

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