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Reconstruction is best read as a compact arc with a tragic reversal, so a good path is strictly sequential. Start with emancipation and the constitutional revolution that promised Black citizenship, follow the brief experiment in multiracial democracy, and then confront its violent undoing, so the retreat and the rise of Jim Crow register as a defeat that was fought for, not a natural fading.

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