Please reread the passage from Fast's novel Freedom Road, pp. 163-172, about the deal to end Reconstruction. Then, please read Labor's Untold Story, Chapter 2, pp. 38-43, about the historical context in which this occurred.
You should read the whole chapter to learn more about this context. But you need only make special reference to this first section of it here.
Find two or three other passages in the novel that are concerned with politics, and which you think relevant to this issue of the "end of Reconstruction". Then, please write 300 words giving us the benefit of your thoughts about this subject. What is Fast's, or the novel's, analysis of this event?
Email to me and to your group.