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Historian @HenryLouisGates won a 2020 duPont award for his series “Reconstruction: America after the Civil War,” from @PBS and @McGee_Media. #ReconstructionPBS.
@HenryLouisGates @PBS @McGee_Media The whole series is available to stream for FREE! #ReconstructionPBS pbs.org/weta/reconstru…
This multi-part documentary shone a light on the period between 1865 and 1877 when the federal government attempted to rebuild the South and establish meaningful reforms.
Watching now. This doc on the Reconstruction era on @PBS is so interesting.
What we don’t learn in school bout The Civil War. Many...MANY enslaved folks fled the South to fight for the Union army. Enslaved folks were not just freed. We fought for the Union in such huge numbers...and left the fields in the South in such huge numbers...
...slavery was coming to an end one way or another. Through the revolts of the enslaved...or from folks fleeing to fight for the English...or the Yankies. We fought for our own damn freedom. And we’ve never stopped.
Finally watching #ReconstructionPBS. The very fact that I was born a citizen is due to the black freedom struggle and its white allies in the 1860s. Every American should know the story of Thaddeus Stevens, a true hero:
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By the end of 1867, 80% of black men in the South could vote. Former slaves worked with poor whites to build schools, giving the nation a blueprint for a multiracial democracy. Of course, Andrew Johnson bitterly opposed this.
After white slave power attempted to reinstall its members in Congress; enacted Black Codes; and committed massacres against Blacks, there might not have been enough support for the 14th Amendment, adopted July 1868.
I am looking forward to the conversation about #13th tonight. Because we are going to extend the conversation of the film between #histflix & #docuhistory over two screening over several days, I am going to keep a long thread connected to the film. 
I think this explanation of the use of the language of the US Constitution to oppress people by @TheTattooedProf is something we often over look when we teach USH K-12. To all of our detriment! #histflix
For Ss and Ts, dropping in a reference to Oscar Micheaux’s Within Our Gates. Whenever Birth of a Nation gets taught I Think WOG should also be taught so Ss can learn about the very active resistance by African Americans to Griffith’s racist propaganda. #histflix #docuhistory
Thread. This is a response to a conversation on @nhannahjone ‘s timeline a couple of days ago about slavery. She argued that for most of U.S. history, “black people were set completely *outside* of the class structure.”
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That slaves, “As non-people, as property, as a tradable commodity, they were classless. Their race meant they had NO class.” Most people on her TL agreed with her. A few were puzzled and skeptical. In another tweet in response to a critic she said:
“Can a table or a mule be part of a class. If so, then, yes, AMerican slaves were part of a class.” The idea that enslaved people were regarded as property is a contradiction on its face, as many scholars have argued. Slaves were commodified for the purpose of exploiting their
