The Rubble of Reconstruction

have been channeled into a differentncourse? Could the woeful mistakesn--- committed by all parties involvedn--- have been obviated? Could thenSouth have been spared the war's legacynof poverty, bitterness, and racialnantagonism?nCertainly the agents of the AMAnwould have answered yes to the lastnquestion, for they saw the moment asnripe for . . .