Radical Reconstruction

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Mon, 08/24/2015 - 12:00am
Clayton reads Gourevitch on reconstruction's threat to abolish wage slavery

Clayton Morgareidge reads from a piece by Alex Gourevitch in the current issue of Jacobin "Our Forgotten Labor Revolution" arguing that the Reconstruction of the South following the Civil War was ended because its promise of freedom was threatening to go beyond the abolition of chattel slavery to challenge wage slavery. 

[public domain image of Knights of Labor Seal via wikipedia]

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