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====Conclusion====
This brief foray into this little-known history of Black political activity in Reconstruction reveals the complex forces at play as well as the resilience of a people who not only endured slavery but fought their way out of those conditions to develop a political praxis that accomplished much. Though brief, it was intense and transformational. Perhaps its lasting legacy is the public education system and the existence of historically Black colleges and universities to this day. Its unfinished work and perhaps its current relevance is the vantage point that it articulated from the highest political offices of a vision of democracy for those traditionally excluded.
====Bibliography====
Du Bois, W.E.B. ''Black Reconstruction in America, 1860-1880''.New York: Free Press, 2000.
Foner, Eric. ''Reconstruction: America’s Unfinished Revolution, 1863-1877''. New York: Harper, 1988.
Harding, Vincent. ''There is a River: The Black Struggle for Freedom in America''. Orlando, FL: Harcourt Brace, 1981.
Holt, Thomas. ''Black over White: Negro Political Leadership in South Carolina during Reconstruction''. Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press, 1979.
Quarles, Benjamin. ''The Negro in the Civil War''. New York: Russell and Russell, 1953.
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