HIS 106 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: White Supremacy, Jim Crow Laws
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Stephanie mccurry - professor of history at columbia, two books. How women live this history based on their sex. How many things had to be fixed during reconstruction after the civil war. Gertrude clanton thomas lived through it all. All the way to her descent into poverty. 3 and a half million africans enslaved to the thomases were liberated. The former owners had to face defeat. Post war south reconstruction involved a revolution for every family. We can see how huge structures for land, racial, religion changed. Emphasis on the nature of racial exploitation. Thomas" account let us see the face of private life. To see what was carried from prewar to postwar. You can see it from a domestic space. Dismantling slavery showed how deep its roots had gone. It had been part of every element of life. When slavery became a thing of the past she was financially suffering.
