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Maria Easton |
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Easy on South, Blacks
rights, President Rec., State |
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Maria is the wife of poor white laborer. Her husband
had worked with black laborers before the war at the Tredegar Iron Works in Richmond,
Virginia and then moved with his family to the new industrial town of Selma, Alabama where
both he and his wife secured work. Unlike many poor whites, Maria sees both the humanity
in fellow black laborers and the ways in which poor blacks and poor whites are pitted
against each other to ensure the power of the white leadership class. She wants the South
to be readmitted to the Union, believes blacks and poor whites should have more of a say
about their lives, and has faith that through Presidential Reconstruction the state power,
with blacks and whites working together, is the best way to achieve economic justice. |
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Readings based on Beliefs: |
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Belief 1 - Easy for the South
to get back in to the Union and pardons should be easy to secure |
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Belief 3 - Freedmen and free
blacks should receive substantial political, economic and social rights |
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Belief 6 - The President should
control Reconstruction |
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Belief 8 - Reconstruction
should be organized and implemented on a state level |
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