... former slave owners should be given to their former slaves. This would crush slave owning aristocrats and establish a solid economic basis for African American citizenship. Like Lincoln, he believed that a virtuous democracy should be composed of free, independent small, producers and farmers. The Reconstruction was a lame attempt at a political, social, and economic revolution. Under the Reconstruction Act, Congress, by the summer ... statute. He appealed to the U. S. Supreme Court, but it upheld his conviction by claiming that "separate but equal" facilities were not a violation of hi...

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