Week 2 Lecture

Slavery and Reconstruction

I. Reconstruction: Where to Begin

II.. Slavery

• Unique Fact
• Racial System
• Broad White Support
• A Slave's Life
• Black Culture
• Dual Role for African Americans

III. Civil War

• Thirteenth Amendment
• Andrew Johnson's Plan for Reconstruction
  President Johnson's Proclamation of Amnesty
  IMAGE: Andrew Johnson
• Black Codes
  Mississippi Black Code, 1865
• Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments
• The Freedmen's Bureau

IV. Impeachment and the Legacy of Reconstruction

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