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The Lost Cause Against Reconstruction / Kidada Williams

This Is Hell!

This Is Hell!

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🗓️ 27 March 2023

⏱️ 82 minutes

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Summary

Just as there is a lost cause narrative for the South White Northerners and Westerners have spun a related tale, and it's that they're all abolitionist.

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Tonight the riots will be there. Oh, you're welcome to you. Oh, you're going to be.

0:15.0

Oh, you're going to get our power.

0:17.0

Oh, you're welcome to help.

0:20.0

Oh, you're welcome to know. This is hell.

0:37.0

another end of the world. is hell.

0:47.0

Another end of the world is possible. This is hell and this week we are starting off with the end of the short-lived freedom freed slaves

0:55.2

witnessed immediately following the Civil War and during reconstruction.

0:59.6

No reconstruction was not a failure like white supremacist historians want proving to be a great success for that is until former Confederates took off their gray uniforms and replaced them

1:16.2

with white hoods and sheets. They also were draped in impunity as their night

1:22.3

raids of terrorizing, brutalizing, torturing, and

1:25.0

killing any African American who has shown even the slightest sign of success became a regular

1:31.4

part of life or whatever you want to call that kind of living under constant physical and emotional duress.

1:38.0

But the reality of the white supremacist war on freedom that was the real cause of the end of

1:43.7

reconstruction has been erased by the continued war on the black family.

1:48.1

Instead lost cause myths and those of white chivalry stand in constant denial of what the historical record actually

1:55.2

reveals about African American successes during reconstruction and the white supremacist

1:59.8

war on freedom. That crushed it in a few minutes we'll speak with historian

2:04.3

Kedada E Williams author of I saw death coming a history of terror and survival and

2:10.3

the war against reconstruction. Kedada researches African Americans experiences of racist violence at Wayne State University in Detroit,

2:17.0

where she teaches courses on African American history, U.S. history, and historical research methods.

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She studies what happened to African American survivors of racist violence.

2:27.8

Her first book, They Left Great Marks on Me, African American Testimonies of Racial Violence from E violence from emancipation to World War I,

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