Reconstruction Mini-QDocument DSource:Heather Cox Richardson, , 2001.In the fall of 1873, even the staunchly [firmly] pro-Grant and pro-freedman ran a letter … arguing that “the blacks, as a people, are unfitted for the
proper exercise of political duties…. The rising generation of … blacks needed a period of
probation and instruction; a period … long enough for the black to have forgotten some-
thing of his condition as a slave and learned much of the true method of gaining honorable
subsistence and of performing the duties of any position to which he might aspire.” A Northern artist’s
portrayal of the South
Carolina State
Legislature during
Reconstruction.Source: The coverof March 14, 1874.Document Analysis 1. According to the letter from the , Reconstruction Mini-QDocument DSource:Heather Cox Richardson, , 2001.In the fall of 1873, even the staunchly [firmly] pro-Grant and pro-freedman ran a letter … arguing that “the blacks, as a people, are unfitted for the
proper exercise of political duties…. The rising generation of … blacks needed a period of
probation and instruction; a period … long enough for the black to have forgotten some-
thing of his condition as a slave and learned much of the true method of gaining honorable
subsistence and of performing the duties of any position to which he might aspire.” A Northern artist’s
portrayal of the South
Carolina State
Legislature during
Reconstruction.Source: The coverof March 14, 1874.Document Analysis 1. According to the letter from the , Reconstruction Mini-QDocument DSource:Heather Cox Richardson, , 2001.In the fall of 1873, even the staunchly [firmly] pro-Grant and pro-freedman ran a letter … arguing that “the blacks, as a people, are unfitted for the
proper exercise of political duties…. The rising generation of … blacks needed a period of
probation and instruction; a period … long enough for the black to have forgotten some-
thing of his condition as a slave and learned much of the true method of gaining honorable
subsistence and of performing the duties of any position to which he might aspire.” A Northern artist’s
portrayal of the South
Carolina State
Legislature during
Reconstruction.Source: The coverof March 14, 1874.Document Analysis 1. According to the letter from the , Reconstruction Mini-QDocument DSource:Heather Cox Richardson, , 2001.In the fall of 1873, even the staunchly [firmly] pro-Grant and pro-freedman ran a letter … arguing that “the blacks, as a people, are unfitted for the
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Reconstruction Mini-QDocument DSource:Heather Cox Richardson, , 2001.In the fall of 1873, even the staunchly [firmly] pro-Grant and pro-freedman ran a letter … arguing that “the blacks, as a people, are unfitted for the
proper exercise of political duties…. The rising generation of … blacks needed a period of 
probation and instruction; a period … long enough for the black to have forgotten some-
thing of his condition as a slave and learned much of the true method of gaining honorable
subsistence and of performing the duties of any position to which he might aspire.” A Northern artist’s 
portrayal of the South
Carolina State
Legislature during
Reconstruction.Source: The coverof March 14, 1874.Document Analysis 1. According to the letter from the , Reconstruction Mini-QDocument DSource:Heather Cox Richardson, , 2001.In the fall of 1873, even the staunchly [firmly] pro-Grant and pro-freedman ran a letter … arguing that “the blacks, as a people, are unfitted for the
proper exercise of political duties…. The rising generation of … blacks needed a period of 
probation and instruction; a period … long enough for the black to have forgotten some-
thing of his condition as a slave and learned much of the true method of gaining honorable
subsistence and of performing the duties of any position to which he might aspire.” A Northern artist’s 
portrayal of the South
Carolina State
Legislature during
Reconstruction.Source: The coverof March 14, 1874.Document Analysis 1. According to the letter from the , Reconstruction Mini-QDocument DSource:Heather Cox Richardson, , 2001.In the fall of 1873, even the staunchly [firmly] pro-Grant and pro-freedman ran a letter … arguing that “the blacks, as a people, are unfitted for the
proper exercise of political duties…. The rising generation of … blacks needed a period of 
probation and instruction; a period … long enough for the black to have forgotten some-
thing of his condition as a slave and learned much of the true method of gaining honorable
subsistence and of performing the duties of any position to which he might aspire.” A Northern artist’s 
portrayal of the South
Carolina State
Legislature during
Reconstruction.Source: The coverof March 14, 1874.Document Analysis 1. According to the letter from the , Reconstruction Mini-QDocument DSource:Heather Cox Richardson, , 2001.In the fall of 1873, even the staunchly [firmly] pro-Grant and pro-freedman ran a letter … arguing that “the blacks, as a people, are unfitted for the
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