recon 2

RECONSTUCTION PAPER The reconstruction period was a time of recovery for the country as a whole. To heal the deep wounds of the civil war. The loss of cities, towns, homes, and family members. Whole cities were burned level, and widows were left scattered all over the country with a small pile of smoking rubble left as their houses. The whole country was a shambles and everyone agreed on one thing - it was time …

…well worth the difficulties encountered during the time of reconstruction and even today. Yet they African-Americans would learn to get by. The times were tough, and nobody could really understand the true beauty of their achievement but the African-American people themselves, as U.S. novelist, Pearl S. Buck once put it, "None who have always been free can understand the terrible and fascinating power of the hope of freedom to those who are not free".