Here I am,

Banana,

rotten like a hermin cane.

Peas, peas, peas, peas, eating goober peas.

Goodness how delicious, eating goober peas.

We love the goober peas, don't we, folks?

We love to eat in Cooper Pea.

It's the best.

You go.

You take it, you put it in your mouth.

You march to Georgia with your goober peas.

Anyone remembers that?

They probably don't.

That was a Civil War marching song about peanuts. That's how

unentertained people better back there. They had to sing songs about goddamn peanuts. How sad. Can you imagine?

How bizarre. How bizarre. So today we're going to talk about the first chapter of reconstruction,

but before we start, just do a little, how you doing everybody?

Don't worry.

If anybody didn't do the reading, it's no big deal.

The first chapter is mostly setting the stage.

It starts with the Emancipation Proclamation, the signing of the Emancipation Proclamation.

And it's essentially focuses on the way that the Civil War had broken apart American society,

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