At the end of the Reconstruction Era, the political tide in America shifted away from a society pursuing racial equity. "It seems that we're drifting, drifting back under the leadership of slaveholders," George M. Arnold, a Black Union veteran soldier said in 1870, concerned about White Southerns' violent efforts to disenfranchise Black people a few years after the Civil War ended. Arnold, an enslaved Black man born in Kentucky, saw a unique slice of American history when million…
Dr. Allison Wiltz
