Time Period 4 – Reconstruction (1866-1900)

After the African- Americans had the victory of illegalizing slavery in the United States of America, there was yet another fight they had to win. In fact, the outcome of this fight either gave essence to their initial victory or not.

  • In this period, you will learn how eventually, the phrase ‘All men are born equal’ gradually began to become a reality to Americans of African descent .
  • You will also find out that their journey had however not come to an end. Although the fight had ended and the freedom of the Americans of African descent had been guaranteed at the national level, they had just started another journey, which was going to take long years.
  • You will learn how they went through the journey to recognizing, enforcing, and expanding their freedom at local levels, amongst all and sundry. Was this also characterized by bloodshed and bloody revolutions? What was their weapon this time around? This time period encapsulates these and so much more.
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