"... the end of Reconstruction represented not simply the unleashing of white supremacy on the South, although that was surely part of it, but also the alliance of white supremacy with property, for as both the most radical and most conservative among nineteenth-century observers noted, the right to hold human property might have been the first to be challenged, but there was no necessary reason that it should be the last."
-- Walter Johnson. The Broken Heart of America (p. 155)
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