• PugJesus@piefed.socialEnglish
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    7 months ago

    Reconciliation was Lincoln’s blunder, but we can’t pin all the blame on him.

    Hardly Lincoln’s blunder. Reconstruction was sabotaged by Andrew Johnson

    • bdonvr@thelemmy.club
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      7 months ago

      Lincoln was bad on reconstruction. Johnson was terrible.

      But Lincoln isn’t blameless. He was going soft on the former confederacy before his death