Originally Posted By: Frank_Nitti
Originally Posted By: olivant

Yeah, that revolution was helpful notwithstanding the Black Codes, Reconstruction Acts, the KKK, the slaughter of the Indians, and the Chinese Exclusion Act.

That's a rather narrow assessment of the movement and that time in history, wouldn't you agree? The Evangelical Revolution in post Civil War America represented the first time ever that blacks and whites in the South East and Mid West United States stood hand in hand as they came together to worship under the unity of God.


Yes, while the Black Codes excluded former slaves from entry into the political, social, legal, and economic life of the South, while the Reconstruction Acts forced military occupation on the South and disenfranchised most white males, while few trees in the South did not experience a lynching of former slaves by the KKK, while the Trail of Tears was under construction, and while potential Chinese immigrants were barred from the US because of ..uhmm??... oh yeah...race. But so many people were holding hands that ....


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