The other phase of reconstruction
Subtitle: speech of Hon. John Mercer Langston, delivered at Congregational Tabernacle, Jersey City, New Jersey, April 17, 1877
Contributors: Daniel Murray Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress)
Publisher: Gibson Brothers, Printers
Published: 1877
Place of publication: Washington, D.C
Language: eng
Number of pages: 16
Subjects: Congregational Tabernacle (Jersey City, N.J.); Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877)
Description: Langston, an African American congressman from Virginia, looks for a manner in which to bring the separate classes of the South -- former slave owners, freed slaves, poor whites, etc. -- together to live in peace in the new post-Civil War national order. He opts for enforcement of new constitutional provisions regarding African Americans but perhaps with some concessions to the old Southern ruling class to enlist their support in rebuilding the South and the Union.
Notes: "Peaceful reconstruction possible."

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