Reconstruction To Present
During Reconstruction, it was a serious question whether slavery had been permanently abolished or whether some form of semi-slavery would appear after the Union armies left. Over time a large civil rights movement arose to bring full civil rights and equality under the law to all Americans.
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“When a language creates—as it does—a community within the present, it does so only by courtesy of a community between the present and the past.”
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