“The Compromise of 1877 ended Reconstruction, sealed the alliance between Northern and Southern conservatives and ratified the shifting emphasis of Northern policy from the political and missionary to the economic and exploitative….. “Northern capital could not have moved so swiftly through the South had it not been for the collaboration of Southern business elites. The […]
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Redeemers to Northern capitalists: Come on down!
Posted in Just A Bite, tagged compromise of 1877, jackson lears, lost cause, nc industrialization, raleigh observer, rebirth of a nation on December 30, 2013 | Leave a Comment »