Unfortunately the 150th anniversary of the passage of the 13th Amendment and the formal beginning of Reconstruction probably will not have the power or grandeur of the 150th anniversary commemorations of the Civil War. There likely will be fewer academic symposia and state-commissioned programs. This is not as it should be.
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