Reconstruction Era

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Also, in some southern states, convict leasing was essentially a new form of slavery that started during the Reconstruction Era and went on for decades.

From Seattle Times • Feb. 23, 2023

You could also say something similar about the Reconstruction Era, and then about how that passed very quickly.

From Salon • Aug. 13, 2022

The scheme had a vague historical precedent and was rooted, at least in theory, in a post- Reconstruction Era law designed to address how to handle disputed elections.

From New York Times • Jul. 27, 2022

Many leaders in the Reconstruction Era underestimated the Redeemers — the Southern wing of the Democratic Party — who rose up to restore their political power and white supremacy.

From Washington Post • Jan. 29, 2021

In 1867, at the dawn of the Reconstruction Era, no black man held political office in the South, yet three years later, at least 15 percent of all Southern elected officials were black.

From "The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander