Politics in 1867, unlike two years earlier, also assimilated the freedmen's economiclongings. Many northern and southern freeborn leaders, it is true, clung to freelabor nostrums that portrayed hard work and individual accumulation as the onlylegitimate route to the acquisition of prope
this part in the paragraph just shocks me. the fact that with so much hardship with protest and consistently reading what obstacles were crossed just to have so many set backs. To finally have some recognition and have supporters who are there to help, this just shows the improvement in others.