Graphic of part of the Emancipation Proclamation
Rights and POwer: The POlitics of Reconstruction
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Advertisement for the Savannah and Charleston Railroad, 1878 (South Carolina Historical Society)

Advertisement for the Savannah
and Charleston Railroad, 1878
(South Carolina Historical Society)

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Reconstruction governments of the South believed that the development of a regional railroad system with links to Northern markets would create a more diversified economy with oportunities for blacks and whiites alike.

Detail of railroad roundhouse, Atlanta, 1871.
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