How did reconstruction change the meaning of freedom

Reconstruction during the Civil War, in the words of President Abraham Lincoln, brought to America “a new birth of freedom.” And during the war began the nations efforts to come to terms with the destruction of slavery and to define the meaning of freedom. by the wars end it was already clear that the reconstruction would bring far-reaching changes in southern society, and a redefinition of the place of blacks in American life.

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