Saturday, October 15, 2011

Reconstruction, Quotations

Politics: "On the first day of January in the year of our lord, one thousand eight hundred and sixty three, all persons held as a slaves within any state, the people whereof shall then be in rebellion against the United States, shall be then, thenceforward, and forever free."-Abraham Lincoln

Economy: "The goal to strive for is a poor government but a rich people."-Andrew Johnson

Free Blacks: "Without a struggle, there can be no progress"-Frederick Douglass

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