Last two states to ratify the 13th Amendment abolishing slavery. Kentucky - 1976 Mississippi - 1995 (Currently reading The Rise and Fall of the Second American Republic: Reconstruction, 1860-1920, by @profmsinha.bsky.social) bookshop.org/p/books/the-...
The Rise and Fall of the Second American Republic: Reconstruction, 1860-1920We are told that the present moment bears a strong resemblance to Reconstruction, the era after the Civil War when the victorious North attempted to create an interracial democracy in the unrepentant ...bookshop.org
