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with Union veterans in the 1870s?
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None.
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The Labor Movement and the Women's Rights Movements,
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on the other hand, are going to be crippled--
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not ruined, but crippled--by the Civil War,
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by the authoritarianism of war, all its centralization.
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And emancipation, of course,
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ushered into national life all sorts of new challenges,
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new ideas, new meanings,
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and this most difficult American idea of all,
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racial equality.
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God, what are you going to do with that now?