#1390 Tell Stories, Not Myths: Our Second Founding (Reconstruction) (Repost)
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Jay Tomlinson
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🗓️ 25 December 2021
⏱️ 73 minutes
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Summary
Original Air Date 1/5/2021
Today we take a look at the often-overlooked decade of Reconstruction in the wake of the Civil War. After hundreds of years of slavery, Reconstruction was a brief moment of relative democracy and equality before the white power structure reasserted itself and instated the policies that would be known as "Jim Crow Laws" which would last another 80 years.
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SHOW NOTES
Ch. 1: The Second Revolution Part 1 - Scene on Radio - Air Date 2-19-20
After the Civil War, a surprising coalition tried to remake the United States into a real multiracial democracy for the first time. Reconstruction, as the effort was called, brought dramatic change to America. For a while.
Sam hosts Pulitzer Prize-winning Yale Historian David Blight to discuss his recent biography of Frederick Douglass, Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom, and how the Reconstruction era lives on in our contemporary politics.
Ch. 3: The Second Revolution Part 2 - Scene on Radio - Air Date 2-19-20
After the Civil War, a surprising coalition tried to remake the United States into a real multiracial democracy for the first time. Reconstruction, as the effort was called, brought dramatic change to America. For a while.
Ch. 4: Slavery, Race, and the Confederate Army - Professor Buzzkill History Podcast - Air Date 8-14-18
Professor Colin Woodward joins us to discuss the importance of slavery in the minds of Confederate soldiers, as well as its effects on military policy and decision making. He tells us about the Rebels’ persistent belief in the need to defend slavery
Ch. 5: The Second Revolution Part 3 - Scene on Radio - Air Date 2-19-20
After the Civil War, a surprising coalition tried to remake the United States into a real multiracial democracy for the first time. Reconstruction, as the effort was called, brought dramatic change to America. For a while.
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Ch. 6: The Second Revolution Part 4 - Scene on Radio - Air Date 2-19-20
VOICEMAILS
Ch. 7: Experiment with Refer-o-Matic - Nick From California New
Ch. 8: Power and defining the marginalized - Pat from Chicago
FINAL COMMENTS
Ch. 9: Final comments on the epic Refer-o-Matic program and why we should be messaging to rural America
MUSIC (Blue Dot Sessions):
- Opening Theme: Loving Acoustic Instrumental by John Douglas Orr
- Voicemail Music: Low Key Lost Feeling Electro by Alex Stinnent
- Activism Music: This Fickle World by Theo Bard
- Closing Music: Upbeat Laid Back Indie Rock by Alex Stinnent
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to this episode of the award-winning Best of a Left podcast, in which we shall |
| 0:07.0 | learn about the often overlooked decade of reconstruction in the wake of the Civil War. |
| 0:13.0 | After hundreds of years of slavery, reconstruction was a brief moment of relative democracy |
| 0:18.5 | and equality before the white power structure reasserted itself and instated the policies |
| 0:23.4 | that would be known as Jim Crow laws, which would last another 80 years. |
| 0:28.9 | Things today are from scene on radio, the majority report, and Professor Buzz Gale. |
| 0:40.7 | In the low country, there were about 200 different plantations that were sold, and most of them |
| 0:46.4 | were bought up by Northerners, but a big chunk of that land was bought up by African Americans, |
| 0:51.0 | and that's sort of the seed that Victoria was talking about, this family land that was |
| 0:54.6 | so important. |
| 0:56.0 | And land was really what mattered in reconstruction. |
| 0:59.0 | Getting a vote was great, but land and education, I think, were sort of hand in hand. |
| 1:03.9 | Education had allowed people to, in the past, to rise up through society. |
| 1:09.2 | If you could read and write, then you could become a powerful person. |
| 1:12.2 | But also land, the people that were the most powerful and rich in the old south had been |
| 1:15.6 | the big landowners, and just their example. |
| 1:18.0 | They were literate and they had land. |
| 1:19.2 | It was something that the freedmen could aspire to, and they did. |
| 1:27.9 | Land, education, the right to vote and hold public office. |
| 1:32.8 | For a time, it looked like these things would now become available to four million black |
| 1:37.0 | people across the American South who were freshly freed from chattel slavery. |
| 1:42.8 | This made the years after 1865 an extraordinary time. |
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