History of the United States I / Unit 16 USH1 2302 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Redemption and Colfax
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The idea
Redeemers spoke of redeeming their states from northern control and restoring the antebellum social order, working through the Democratic Party.
In practice
As many as one hundred and fifty freedmen killed at the Colfax courthouse, many while trying to surrender.
Where people slip
Democrats recaptured Texas by eighteen seventy-three, Alabama and Arkansas in seventy-four, and the United States House in the eighteen seventy-four elections.
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