HIST 201 UCLA Advocate for Equality Other Forms of Oppression Discussion

1.Prompt: Some historians argue that Reconstruction was a “recycled form of slavery.” Do you agree with this?

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2.write a comment to the following paragraph(no more than 100words)

• to some degrees, I agree with this opinion.The biggest reason why I hold the same idea is that, although legal slavery was finally banned during the Reconstruction, the “form of slavery” still existed in the society. The difference is, it has another name called labor. Especially after Lincoln’s death, the whole game seems to changed dramatically. As many African American, or Blacks, were freed because of the emancipation, many of them were still seeking lives as a wage labor working for employers, often their former enslavers. A significant point I say the Reconstruction was a “recycled form of slavery” was how the Blacks were treated. Even when they were supposed to work for specific work, for example, washing, most of the whites employers then still considered them as paid labors. This example is fully described in the text about how a washerwomen was treated no difference than a slave because the one who employed her thought she was paid for “a day’s labor, not just the load of washing”.Meanwhile, those wage labors were still suffering from “the surveillance of white women and the sexual threat posed by white men”. Even they were “free” by law, their society status still hasn’t change much — they were still heavily discriminated.Even after the end of the Reconstruction, the situation was still not as ideal as Lincoln’s thoughts. Of course, there were many movements and reformations in the process, so that their rights were guaranteed a little much than before. However, the complete end of “slavery” still has a long way to go even when it was legally abolished.