reconstruction video

 This video was really interesting to me, and it really made me think, wow, this really happened in our world not that long ago. This video surprised me because I didn't know that it took so long for black people to be able to join the army or even be able to own land. I thought it was crazy that it took years for black people to be able to have rights and even just be free. I found it very sad how thousands, if not millions, of black families got separated during this horrible time, and it took months and sometimes years for them to reunite after slavery was abolished. I thought it was very crazy that black people would later have to do labor contracts with their former owners because the government made it impossible for them to be economically independent. When slavery was abolished, it took years for it to actually fully go away. When it was first abolished, many white people still treated black people like slaves and as if they still owned them, and like they didn't have rights. It was crazy to me that the government created laws only for black people, they were trying to remake slavery. If black people got arrested, their children got taken away, and someone else would raise their children, and the parents didn't have a choice. it got so bad that the KKK was created. If a black person had too much land or a black child was doing better in school, the KKK would attack them, trying to level the ground. come nightfall fall they pushed everyone into houses and boarded up the doors, they set them on fire, and if they ran out of the house to try and escape, they got shot. It took 3 days for the government to regain control, but by that time, all the black churches and schools, and their houses were burned to the ground. When reconstruction started, they made it so that anyone born in the United States would be granted citizenship, and no one could deny them that. I really enjoyed watching this video, I learned a lot of stuff from it that I didn't know before.