Chase, I think most of my black friends would not have much to say good about reconstruction. Their emancipation yes, but the Federal post-war program for handling the South left both black & white frustrated and angry.

From the Jim Crowe laws to disenfranchising white southeners to creating a racial rivalry that (helped) lead to racial hatred I consider Reconstruction a blight on America's name. I believe even the Federal govt. would agree due to their total change of policy since that era.