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Blight:
Reconstruction is full of
mob actions, mob violence, massacres of people. It's just the destruction
of life out of fear and the feeling of the threat to the social
and political order as white people wished it
Reconstruction is full of
mob actions, mob violence, massacres of people. It's just the destruction
of life out of fear and the feeling of the threat to the social
and political order as white people wished it
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Blight:
Reconstruction is full of
mob actions, mob violence,
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massacres of people.
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It's just the destruction
of life out of fear
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and the feeling of the threat
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to the social
and political order
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as white people wished it.
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Movie Summary
Inspired by David Blight's Pulitzer Prize-winning biography, Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom.