►  What are the motives of the North, besides moral, for Reconstruction?

►   How does the Compromise of 1877, ending Reconstruction, color the South’s history ever since?

►   What marks the re-emergence of the Master Class in the South?

►   Why does the federal government fail to act in response to the new racial abuses in the South?

►   Why is rise of sharecropping in some ways worse than slavery?

►   Why is the South’s “Gone With the Wind” perception of itself as victim a myth?

►   How does the struggle for the control of the one-party South ultimately worsen blacks’ lives for years to come?

►   Why can it be said that the South lost the war but won the peace?