Research Paper on:
Economic Development of the Antebellum Period

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that is still active today. The social structure that existed prior to the emancipation proclamation continues to need exorcism as discrimination, unemployment and differences in cultural traits plague the  process of unification between the white and black population. Reconstruction was a time of new beginnings for the Blacks of this country. There was a sense of  pride felt in their race, the beginnings of a type of patriotism that hadnt been seen before. The promise of a better life brought with it an exerburance that  often battled with the increase in violence, prejudice and discrimination that also marked the post war experience. The social reconfiguration was not always successful as violence against Blacks escalated  from the late 1860s through the thirties. It seems that the whites of both the North and South were opposed to the former slaves being able to vote.  The Ku Klux Klan became a force in the underground political sphere as a means to keep blacks in their place. Reconstruction was successful because it brought about  a new social reality based on economic considerations. It failed, however, to bring equality to the freed slaves or to convince the white majority that the blacks should be  allotted the same rights and responsibilities as whites. Assigning economic reasoning to the phenomenon seems logical, however, it leaves little room for the displacement and reconstruction that Blacks  as a culture had to endure as they found a place in a changing society. There existed a history of Black displacement in employment, as seen prior to the  Civil War when Black artisans were displaced by immigrants fleeing the Napoleonic wars in Europe (Diamond 451). W. E. B. Dubois advocated a strategy that is neither "an attempt