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July 15, 1870: Georgia Readmitted to the Union

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Georgia was the last of the former Confederate States to be readmitted to the Union.  Congress refused to sit Georgia representatives or senators in Congress in 1869 due to the action of the Georgia legislature in expelling black members of that body.  This was followed by an attack by a white mob in the town of Camilla, Georgia on a Republican gathering that killed 12 blacks.  Federal military rule was reimposed in December of 1869.  In 1870 the troops were withdrawn and the Georgia Congressional delegation seated, when the Georgia legislature agreed to sit blacks.  By 1872 Geogia was firmly under the control of one of the so-called “Redeemer” white governments throughout the old Confederacy that used a mixture of legislation and terrorism to disenfranchise blacks.  The Civil War ended slavery and preserved the Union.  The Reconstruction era failed to protect the civil rights of blacks, a sad legacy that is still impacting the nation.

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Kennybhoy
Kennybhoy
Friday, July 15, AD 2016 6:02am

God bless you and yours Maister McC.

Lucius Quinctius Cincinnatus
Lucius Quinctius Cincinnatus
Friday, July 15, AD 2016 7:04am

“The Reconstruction era failed to protect the civil rights of blacks, a sad legacy that is still impatcing the nation.”
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It is the blatant racism of Barack Hussein Obama and his wife Michelle which injures and demeans black people into a servitude of hatred and violence against themselvs, white people, and police, and that legacy may be harder to undo than the legacy of what happened in the Reconstruction era.

T. Shaw
T. Shaw
Friday, July 15, AD 2016 8:12am

LQC is 100% correct. From Bookworm Room blog: “if black lives really mattered, blacks would stop killing each other. Blacks would stop committing genocide against themselves by aborting more black children than they allow to be born. Blacks would stop consigning generations to poverty by having the majority of their children out-of-wedlock. Blacks would stop treating education as punishment and instead treat it as an opportunity.”

ExNOAAman
ExNOAAman
Friday, July 15, AD 2016 1:56pm

Here LQC, is a good summary of what CBC has become; by Michelle Malkin yesterday…
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http://townhall.com/columnists/michellemalkin/2016/07/13/congressional-black-corruption-n2192012

Kennybhoy
Kennybhoy
Saturday, July 16, AD 2016 8:01am

Jesus wept… 🙁

Once again, thanks for this Maister McC and God bless…

Just me
Just me
Saturday, July 16, AD 2016 8:37am

Slavery is and was a terrible thing. I may be wrong but wasn’t the Federal gov. also wrong in just telling them(the slaves) you are free go find a job and prosper. If they were slaves then they most likely had no education. There seem to have been no thought given to that part of freeing the slaves. They were never allowed to leave the plantation so how were they to know were to go and what to do? Were they knowledgeable enough in 1869- 70 to set in the legislature? I know that I’m not!
I know I’m not as smart as the rest of you nor do I have the education some of you do. I just have always thought of this and have never seen it addressed. God’s Blessing to all

Michael Paterson-Seymour
Michael Paterson-Seymour
Monday, July 18, AD 2016 3:28am

Just Me wrote, “If they were slaves then they most likely had no education.”
Is that really true? If so, it is in stark contrast to the ancient world. Just think of freedmen like Marcus Antonius Pallas (Greek, despite the Roman name), who was Secretary to the Treasury under Nero and Claudius. His brother, Marcus Antonius Felix was Procurator of Judea. Then there was Tiberius Claudius Narcissus, who was head of the Imperial Chancellery under Claudius. The civil service was very largely composed of slaves or freemen. One also recalls Epictetus, the Stoic philosopher and a particularly elegant writer, a freedman.
There must have been any number of others in high positions in the bureaucracy and in commerce, too, like the Vetii, who owned one of the finest villas in Pompeii, and whose names have not come down to us.

T. Shaw
T. Shaw
Monday, July 18, AD 2016 6:15am

My understanding is that in some ante-bellum, deep-south states, education of slaves was illegal.
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FYI, those Southerners that stripped the freed men of their rights (for 100 years) were 100% Democratic party members/voters. It was called the “Solid South.”
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My opinion, many American Africans are in as bad or in worse state in 2016 than at any time since 1866. Hope and change.
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It’s not my fault.

Just me
Just me
Monday, July 18, AD 2016 10:15am

Yes, I think some of the house slaves were educated.

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