![]() ![]() As a result, Black Americans began to face violence and discrimination in the South once again. ![]() While federal military occupation in the South meant that these new legal protections were initially enforced during President Johnson's tenure, Presidents Grant and Hayes eventually removed the troops. The next portion of Washington’s autobiography covers the Reconstruction period of American history, when the country was trying to rebuild after the Civil War and Black Americans were swiftly granted legal rights formerly stripped from them, such as the right to vote, run for office, start businesses, and own property. After the Union defeated the Confederacy and Lincoln officially emancipated all enslaved people in the United States, Washington began his life as a free man. The first chapter of the book describes the conditions of Washington’s life as a slave from when he was born until he was nine years old, leading up to the end of the Civil War in 1865. ![]()
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