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Reconstruction historian Mark Summers said in a lecture that there has been no solid estimate on the number of people killed during Reconstruction, but that it is "not a small number". Why has no historian been able to calculate the casualty toll of Reconstruction?

by /u/CockMyBratwurst in /r/AskHistorians

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