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[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Reconstruction was mostly social, not infrastructure. It was reconstructing social order in place of what was removed (plantation farming a slave labor), not buildings/roads/railways really.

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

Well that became the narrative when it became clear that we weren't going to rebuild all the buildings we burned down.