"Many Americans today, in this age of historical amnesia, would disbelieve that one part of their country was once put under military occupation by another part, that heinous crimes went unpunished,

that summary arrests and summary executions were common, that courts were subverted, legislatures corrupted, and the majority of the electorate disfranchised - all at the instance of the federal government.

Indeed, some wish to cover it up - or worse, to rewrite it into a distortion."

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Michael Grissom. Southern by the Grace of God