The reconstruction wasn’t radical enough (e*t me, neoconfederates). Letting Jim Crow (D) take over the South was shameful, and politically very stupid of Republicans.
Option B was Lincoln’s alleged plans for ex-slave relocation.
“Option B was Lincoln’s alleged plans for ex-slave relocation.”
Music to my ears!
“Time to go...here’s a ticket for that boat headed East. Bye bye! GTFO!”
And I don’t care if they had little or nothing in common with “their bros” back where they came from. Just GTFO.
We’d have an exponentially better nation today; it’s not debatable. So, don’t bother attempting to debate it with me. I like who I like and don’t like who I don’t like. Interpret that as however you want.
If Reconstruction had been harsher (or even maintained as it was), you would’ve had to fight another war and keep a perpetual occupying force in the South. There was no fire in the belly amongst Northerners to do that. The 1876 elections were demonstrative of that. If Hayes didn’t end it (as the “deal” for being awarded the election), President Tilden would’ve.
As was said many times, pro-abolitionist Northerners didn’t want freed Blacks flooding into their states. They were fine with dictating terms from far away upon the South, but had they been inundated with the people they freed, would’ve turned into the most rabid and violent racists.