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Section 2: Building the Black Community: The Family Section 2: Building the Black Community: The Church Section 2: Building the Black Community: The School Section 2: Quest for Economic Autonomy and Equal Rights Section 2: Memory and Mourning Section 2: Violence

Richmond Ruins with Women in Mourning Dress

Richmond Ruins with Women in Mourning Dress
(Valentine Museum)

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The Confederate defreat left most white Southerners in a state of shock. The appalling loss of life was a disaster without parallel in the American experience. Over one-fifth of the South's adult white population of military age died during the Civil War.
Copyright 2003
A New Birth of Freedom: Reconstruction During the Civil War The Meaning of Freedom: Black and White Responses to Slavery From Free Labor to Slave Labor Rights and Power: The Politics of Reconstruction Introduction The Ending of Reconstruction Epilogue Additional Resources Credits for this Exhibit