Civil War Reconstruction
The podcast that explores the Civil War, what led to it, and the world the Civil War created. From ”Black Confederates” to Reconstruction, the Lost Cause to the rising power of Black voters after the war, this podcast examines some of the most controversial issues of the mid-19th Century-and today! Your host, Patrick Young, is the author of The Immigrants’ Civil War and The Reconstruction Era Blog. He is Special Professor of Law at Hofstra University.
Episodes
The Civil War was one of the most important series of events in United States history, but the struggle initiated by the war did not stop on the date Robert E. Lee surrendered. The next decade saw the conflict continue by other means as African American and White Southerners contended for freedom and power.
Pat Cleburne proposed ending slavery in the South so that Black men would enlist in the Confederate army. What does his proposal tell us about the "Black Confederate" Controversy?
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