The Readjusters: Virginia's Radical Reformers

For a brief moment, ex-Confederates teamed up with ex-slaves to stick it to the rich...and for some reason West Virginia?
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00:00 - Reconstruction
01:17 - State of politics in the 1870s
05:10 - Forming of the Readjuster Party
07:56 - Readjuster rule in Virginia
09:32 - The Danville Massacre and Backlash
10:58 - After the Readjusters

Sources:
- “The Danville Riot.” Richmond Dispatch, November 4, 1883, Morning edition.
- Mahone's Tavern and Museum
- Moore, James Tice. Two Paths to the New South: The Virginia Debt Controversy, 1870-1883. Lexington, KY: University Press of Kentucky, 1974.
- Pearson, C. C. “The Readjuster Movement in Virginia.” The American Historical Review 21, no. 4 (July 1916): 734–49.

Music used:
"Americana" by Kevin MacLeod
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