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implications of this compromise.
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There are many long-lasting
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implications and legacies of this compromise,
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in this particular end of Reconstruction.
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And it does seem like a sort of dead end,
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a lights-going-out kind of moment to all that idealism,
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or whatever we wish to call it, that emerged from the war.
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It would leave a person like Frederick Douglass
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in a certain degree of despair.
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He would begin to make speeches,
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and he will the rest of his life,
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about trying to hold onto an emancipationist, abolitionist,