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Unfortunately, Reconstruction did not go far enough. Foremost should have been the necessity of preparing a people who had been enslaved with no self determination to exist as free men in the United States. Slaves were, for the most part, uneducated as it had been illegal to educate them. On the other hand,l white planters had lost much of their livelihood, with no compensation for the slaves who had been freed by the government. Their anger at this financial blow as well as federal troops there to reinforce rights for their former slaves, led to the implementation of a harsh apartheid system that ninety years to demolish.

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