Hi Taela,
I appreciate what you said about rebuilding and figuring out how to integrate the newly freed enslaved people. We do still struggle with the division, and at this time I can't imagine that just because a war ended that the anger about what was to come did as well. The violence towards BIPOC citizens today are ripples that started long before the revolutionary war. While I do not want to go to far into it, since I know it is a current state of the country, it is absolutely impossible to ignore the rise of people proudly declaring their belief that a race or culture is subhuman and/or undeserving of rights. This has been a fight from the moment colonizers stepped foot on this land, and really so long before it I think it would be a struggle to say when it started. In a recent world history course, I found that even a lot of the language relating to the Crusades was not at all unlike the ideas expressed during the Civil War.
I appreciate what you said about rebuilding and figuring out how to integrate the newly freed enslaved people. We do still struggle with the division, and at this time I can't imagine that just because a war ended that the anger about what was to come did as well. The violence towards BIPOC citizens today are ripples that started long before the revolutionary war. While I do not want to go to far into it, since I know it is a current state of the country, it is absolutely impossible to ignore the rise of people proudly declaring their belief that a race or culture is subhuman and/or undeserving of rights. This has been a fight from the moment colonizers stepped foot on this land, and really so long before it I think it would be a struggle to say when it started. In a recent world history course, I found that even a lot of the language relating to the Crusades was not at all unlike the ideas expressed during the Civil War.