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Pass laws passed,
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where blacks could be at any given point in time, with or without a pass.
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And in this newly reconstructed Johnson approach to these states,
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there was a great deal of legislation already
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flowing rom some of these new state legislatures
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meant to directly obstruct the work of the Freedmen's Bureau.
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The counter-revolution folks began almost as soon as the war was over,
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as soon as ex-Confederates could find their way into power.
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And did they ever.
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Part of what went on here in the Northern mind--
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now let's remember, the blood of the war is not entirely dry--
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but part of what was simply going on here