Reconstruction

The time following the Emancipation Proclamation was at first a time when the color line was blurred. Blacks and whites intermingled freely, more so then ever before, yet these interactions were not representative of the South accepting the freedman into society. The Black Codes were enacted so that the former enslaved was not treated as equals in social and political relations. During the Reconstruction the freedman was searching for the meaning of his freedom and …

…Henery Steele Commager and Richard B. Morris (New York: Harper and Row, 1988) 173. 6 Richard Nelson Current, Those Terrible Carpetbaggers, ed. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1988) 125. 7 John Hope Franklin, Reconstruction After the Civil War, 2nd ed. (Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1994) 152. 8 Eric Foner, Reconstruction America’s Unfinished Revolution, ed. Henery Steele Commager and Richard B. Morris (New York: Harper and Row, 1988) 78. 9 John Hope Franklin, Reconstruction After the Civil War, 2nd ed. (Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1994) 109.