Lynching During The Reconstruction Era

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In the late 1880s after the end of the civil war and during the reconstruction period. An awful thing had erupted and it spread across the country. Southern whites saw themselves as a protectors of live and southern white woman and used lynching as a punishment. The whites used lynching because they still saw blacks as property and thought it was a way of punishing them if they did wrong, they didn’t want blacks to have a say in society or be part of it and didn’t want them to have the same jobs. Even though lynching existed before slavery, it got worse after the civil war and during the reconstruction period. White southerners used lynching as a form of punishment for anything they could think of. They used lynching to punish black that

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