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I've seen it pointed out that the light treatment of traitorous Confederates after the war (alongside the abandonment of Reconstruction) as helping cement white supremacy regime in the South. How unusual was it for a nation at this time to not harshly punish traitors after a civil war?

by /u/Paulie_Gatto in /r/AskHistorians

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