HISTORY 124A Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Charleston, South Carolina, Reconstruction Era, Dunning School
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The syllabus contains the most accurate booklist. Essay will incorporate standing soldiers, kneeling slaves, etc. Essay #1 due friday 9/30 by 2pm. Recap of lecture 2: historiography of reconstruction. Foner school: lincoln"s plan for reconstruction, presidential reconstruction, radical reconstruction and a moment in the sun. 1865, jan: union general william t. sherman issues special field order. Sc, and divided it into 40 acre plots for settlement by 18,000 freedpeople. 1865, fall: revoked by president johnson. Private enterprises must be left to regulate these things now that the negro is free, he has received enough at the hands of the nation without expense to himself. Freedman"s bureau shouldn"t exist: congress abandons freedman"s bureau in 1872. The croppers are to have half the cotton, corn, and fodder if the following conditions are compiled with, but-if not-they are to have only two-fifths. o. All croppers to haul rails and work on fence whenever i may order.
