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1861–1870: THE U.S. CIVIL WAR DESTROYED SLAVERY; RECONSTRUCTION GAVE BLACKS CITIZENSHIP—Birthright Citizenship Under Attack, Part 1

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1861–1870: THE U.S. CIVIL WAR DESTROYED SLAVERY; RECONSTRUCTION GAVE BLACKS CITIZENSHIP—Birthright Citizenship Under Attack, Part 1 By Sasha Alex Lessin, Ph.D. (Anthropology, UCLA) & Janet Kira Lessin See the video below this post for more on the Black vote and Trump’s attempt to exclude Blacks from voting. When Southern states seceded in 1860–1861, the central …