Name the author: Ironically, this white Southerner who had s…
Name the author: Ironically, this white Southerner who had served in the Confederate Army and whose family was slaveholders was an advocate of extending full rights as citizens to freed slaves after the Civil War. Freed ex-slaves faced partial rights as citizens as late as 1885, twenty years after the slaves were freed. His essay spoke for equal treatment for freed slaves and all black citizens. He upset Southerners enough that he moved out of the South.
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