American Experience; Interview with Dana D. Nelson, Historian, University of Kentucky, part 2 of 2 : Reconstruction: The Second Civil War
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In the tumultuous years after the Civil War (1863-77), America grappled with how to rebuild itself, how to successfully bring the South back into the Union and how to bring former slaves into the life of the country. Nelson talks about plantation owner Fan Butler Lee and tension with black workers, her view of Tunis Campbell as an agitator, Fan refuses to give workers time off to vote, Gertrude Clanton Thomas, Fan meets Rev. James Wentworth Leigh, end of the plantation and move to England.