• Cethin
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    210 months ago

    Reconstruction was mostly social, not infrastructure. It was reconstructing social order in place of what was removed (plantation farming a slave labor), not buildings/roads/railways really.

    • @xantoxis@lemmy.world
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      310 months ago

      Well that became the narrative when it became clear that we weren’t going to rebuild all the buildings we burned down.