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| 065a9f7 | These victories arose from the determined efforts of a group of lawyers who risked public odium by defending fugitive slaves in court and challenging the long-standing system of black indentured servitude. John M. Palmer, Gustave Koerner, and Orville H. Browning, all future Republican politicians, argued that blacks held to long-term indentures were free, and fought their cases in court without charge. In the 1850s, Lincoln's law partner Wi.. | Eric Foner | ||
| 63b941f | The minimum capital requirement of $50,000 and a proviso barring national banks from holding mortgages on land restricted these institutions to large cities. The system both promoted the consolidation of a national capital market essential to future investment in industry and commerce and placed its control firmly in the hands of Wall Street. | Eric Foner | ||
| 07e8165 | The difference between stripping and burlesque, as far as I could tell, was class. | Ben Aaronovitch | ||
| f3c3dc3 | I always try to turn the spotlight on the other person." Truly confident people often do this. They know they grow more by listening than talking." | Leil Lowndes | ||
| c052288 | The war vindicated their conviction, itself a product of the slavery controversy, that freedom stood in greater danger of abridgment from local than national authority (a startling reversal of the founding fathers' belief, enshrined in the Bill of Rights, that centralized power posed the major threat to individual liberties). | Eric Foner | ||
| 0b5344c | The potent cry of white supremacy provided the final ideological glue in the Democratic coalition. Sometimes the appeal to race was oblique. The Democratic slogan, "The Union as It Is, the Constitution as It Was," had as its unstated corollary, blacks as they were--that is, as slaves. Often, it was remarkably direct. "Slavery is dead," the Cincinnati Enquirer announced at the end of the war, "the negro is not, there is the misfortune." | Eric Foner | ||
| 15d216f | The fundamental underpinning of this interpretation was the conviction, to quote one member of the Dunning School, of "negro incapacity." The childlike blacks, these scholars insisted, were unprepared for freedom and incapable of properly exercising the political rights Northerners had thrust upon them. The fact that blacks took part in government, wrote E. Merton Coulter in the last full-scale history of Reconstruction written entirely wit.. | Eric Foner | ||
| d7bd502 | In 1863 West Virginia was admitted to the Union as a separate state, with the proviso that it abolish slavery. A popular referendum then approved a plan whereby all blacks born after July 4, 1863, would enjoy freedom. By the end of the war, complete emancipation had been enacted. | Eric Foner | ||
| 7f1f537 | The "underground railroad" should be understood not as a single entity but as an umbrella term for local groups that employed numerous methods to assist fugitives, some public and entirely legal, some flagrant violations of the law." | Eric Foner | ||
| 2523f04 | These are the times foretold by the Prophets, 'when a nation shall be born in a day'," declared the call for a black political gathering in 1865. A Tennessee newspaper commented in 1869 that freedmen habitually referred to slavery as Paul's Time, and Reconstruction as Isaiah's Time (referring perhaps to Paul's message of obedience and humility, and Isaiah's prophecy of cataclysmic change brought about by violence). God, who had "scourged Am.. | Eric Foner | ||
| 85e4235 | Accelerating the emergence of an American industrial bourgeoisie, the war tied the fortunes of this class to the Republican party and the national state. | Eric Foner | ||
| 33a25c7 | White men alone must manage the South," Johnson remarked in 1865. Two years later, in 1867, the president asserted that blacks were incapable of self-government. "No independent government of any form has ever been successful in their hands," Johnson wrote in his annual message. "On the contrary, wherever they have been left to their own devices they have shown a constant tendency to relapse into barbarism." It was, the historian Eric Foner.. | Jon Meacham | ||
| 9934039 | By the end of the war, small groups of freedmen were already learning their first lessons in political participation. At Mitchelville, in the South Carolina Sea Islands, blacks, under army supervision, had elected a mayor and city council, who controlled local schools and the administration of justice. On Amelia Island, Florida, blacks voted alongside whites in a local election. | Eric Foner | ||
| 997b49b | John F. Couts, member of a prominent Middle Tennessee planter family, confirmed that for many whites the Bureau's presence was a humiliation: The Agent of the Bureau ... requires citizens (former owners) to make and enter into written contracts for the hire of their own negroes... . When a negro is not properly paid or fairly dealt with and reports the facts, then a squad of Negro soldiers is sent after the offender, who is escorted to town.. | Eric Foner | ||
| f028ae0 | One can begin with the expansion of the source base available to scholars brought about by the digital revolution. When I began work on Reconstruction, the World Wide Web did not exist (nor did email, so that scholars wasted a lot less of their time than nowadays). | Eric Foner | ||
| 12d2149 | Even as the struggle between President Andrew Johnson and Congress reached its climax, the United States acquired Alaska, one part of an imperial agenda long advocated by Secretary of State William H. Seward. Under President Grant, the government attempted to annex the Dominican Republic. | Eric Foner | ||
| 071d735 | I am loth to close. We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battle-field, and patriot grave, to every living heart and hearthstone, all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union, when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature.58 | Eric Foner | ||
| 0cc9ccf | Reconstruction is part of our lives even today. Issues that agitate American politics--who is an American citizen and what rights come along with citizenship, the relative powers of the national government and the states, affirmative action, the relationship between political and economic democracy, the proper response to terrorism--are Reconstruction questions. Reconstruction is embedded in our judicial processes. Every session of the Supr.. | Eric Foner | ||
| 98eaf66 | East Tennessee would remain the most conspicuous example of discontent within the Confederacy. From this area of bridge burning and other acts of armed resistance, thousands of men made their way through the mountains to enlist in the Union army. But other mountain counties also rejected secession from the outset. One citizen of Winston County in the northern Alabama hill country believed yeomen had no business fighting for a planter-domina.. | Eric Foner | ||
| 51afd27 | the emergence during the Civil War and Reconstruction of a national state possessing vastly expanded authority and a new set of purposes, including an unprecedented commitment to the ideal of a national citizenship whose equal rights belonged to all Americans regardless of race. | Eric Foner | ||
| 32496f8 | Reconstruction revisionism arose in tandem with and provided a usable past for the civil rights movement. More than most historical subjects, Reconstruction history matters. Whatever the ebb and flow of historical interpretations, I hope we never lose sight of the fact that something very important for the future of our society was taking place during Reconstruction. | Eric Foner | ||
| f755858 | On the eve of the Civil War, the federal government was "in a state of impotence," its conception of its duties little changed since the days of Washington and Jefferson. Most functions of government were handled at the state and local level; one could live out one's life without ever encountering an official representative of national authority. But the exigencies of war created, as Sen. George S. Boutwell later put it, a "new government,".. | Eric Foner | ||
| dce1bd3 | As late as December, the President signed an agreement with an entrepreneur of dubious character for the settlement of 5,000 blacks on an island off Haiti. (Four hundred hapless souls did in fact reach ile a Vache; those fortunate enough to survive returned to the United States in 1864.) | Eric Foner | ||
| f81d90c | As Georges Clemenceau, reporting on Reconstruction for a French newspaper, observed after the war, "Any Democrat who did not manage to hint that the negro is a degenerate gorilla would be considered lacking in enthusiasm."57" -- | Eric Foner | ||
| d8d88cc | The world, declared the Radical Chicago Tribune, commenting on the draft, needed to be shown that the American government "can confidently command the support of its citizens, and make the duty of the individual to the state a debt to be collected." Such views were forcefully echoed among Northern reformers and intellectuals" | Eric Foner | ||
| 7a61bff | I am vice president," wrote John Adams, the first to inhabit the office. "In this I am nothing. But I may be everything." In January 1961, as Lyndon Johnson left the Senate for the vice presidency, his future held the dim but tantalizing promise of the presidency, of "everything." But in the meantime LBJ would not resign himself to nothingness. It was not his nature. Throughout his life Johnson had assumed positions with no inherent power b.. | Jeff Shesol | ||
| 460cdea | As we worked on From These Roots together, she struggled to voice her feelings about the passing of her siblings and grandmother. For long periods, she could do little more than wipe the tears from her eyes. I offered sympathy, and together we sat in silence. Finally came the day when she began to speak of the ordeals. In her mind, though, she had reversed the chronology; she had Big Mama dying after Cecil when, in fact, Rachel Franklin had.. | David Ritz | ||
| 7784d94 | Train your body to act confidently so your mind follows suit. This is what the experts recommend. It's a lot easier to whip your body into shape than your brain. You know all the basic stuff: Stand tall, look people in the eye, smile and speak up. Start practising your CONFIDENCE BOOSTERs on the least intimidating people. Work your way up to the most difficult. | Leil Lowndes | ||
| 00d12f4 | What super-sure looks like A multitude of fascinating factors come under the 'looking confident 'umbrella. There isn't space here to explore the thousands of subtle signs that signal confidence. I cover them in my book How to Talk to Anyone. However, here are a few hints to tide you over. Self-assureds do the following things instinctively. You can do them consciously until they become second nature. 1. When you are at a gathering, do not s.. | Leil Lowndes | ||
| b3d43e4 | apprehensive | Leil Lowndes | ||
| fd8af42 | Serce ma swoje racje, o ktorych nic nie wie rozum" - Pascal" | Leil Lowndes | ||
| 59b161a | DON'T TOUCH A CLICHE WITH A TEN-FOOT POLE | Leil Lowndes | ||
| 6297d9e | whenever people meet you, they take an instant mental snapshot. That image of you becomes the data they deal with for a very long time. | Leil Lowndes | ||
| 821651b | Your eyes are personal grenades that have the power to detonate people's emotions. | Leil Lowndes | ||
| f0d98dd | Do the thing you fear most and the death of fear is certain." MARK TWAIN" | Leil Lowndes | ||
| 9cf42c3 | The exact moment that two humans lay eyes on each other has awesome potency. | Leil Lowndes | ||
| 282b85e | When we find people with the supernatural powers of perception to recognize our remarkableness, we become addicted to the heady drug of their appreciation. | Leil Lowndes | ||
| dc34371 | Small talk is about putting people at ease. Your unspoken answer to their unspoken question, "How do you like me so far?" must be, "Wow! I really like you." | Leil Lowndes | ||
| 3dfd8d1 | Do humanity and yourself a favor. Never, ever, give just a one-sentence response to the question, "Where are you from?" Give the asker some fuel for his tank, some fodder for his trough." | Leil Lowndes | ||
| ef57df0 | The moment someone looks at you, he or she experiences a massive hit, the impact of which lays the groundwork for the entire relationship. Just give 'em great posture, a heads-up look, a confident smile, and a direct gaze. | Leil Lowndes | ||
| c43c115 | Let's hear it again!" The sweetest sound your conversation partner can hear from your lips when you're talking with a group of people is "Tell them about the time you . . ." | Leil Lowndes | ||
| dff0c53 | Never be left speechless again. Like a parrot, simply repeat the last few words your conversation partner says. That puts the ball right back in his or her court, and then all you need to do is listen. | Leil Lowndes | ||
| 6473a3e | Similarity breeds attraction. When you delay revealing your similarity, or let them discover it, it has much more punch. | Leil Lowndes | ||
| a8209e0 | Never let the phrase thank you stand naked and alone. 'Thank you for being such a good customer.' 'Thank you for being so loving. | Leil Lowndes |