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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,
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memory of the Civil War and Reconstruction.
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He makes a speech a few years later where he's lamenting
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what has now been betrayed and lost
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and is eroding out of their fingers.
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He says Reconstruction is only--
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was only perhaps a rope of sand.