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Robert Black |
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Easy on South, Blacks
few rights, Congress Rec., State |
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Robert is a unreconstructed rebel. A South
Carolinian, he believed before the war that States Rights were the bedrock of American
government and law. As a young boy he had cheered a speech by John C. Calhoun at the
height of the Nullification Crisis. He also shares Calhouns attitudes toward
African-Americans, believing completely that everyone has his place in this world and that
white people by nature dominate blacks. He comes to the convention convinced that
returning the South to its position before the war is the only acceptable position and,
for now, is willing to see Congress run reconstruction because he distrusts the very
common Andrew Johnson and hopes that newly elected Southerners in Congress can combine
with Northern Democrats to reverse the worst excesses of the Republican Party. |
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Readings based on Beliefs: |
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Belief 1 - Easy for the South
to get back into the Union and pardons should be easy to secure |
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Belief 4 - Freedmen and free
blacks should receive few political, economic and social rights |
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Belief 5 - Congress should
control Reconstruction |
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Belief 8 - Reconstruction
should be organized and implemented on a state level |
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