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In the immediate wake of Abraham Lincoln’s assassination, was there a lot of fear in the South that Andrew Johnson and Radical Republicans would take revenge e.g. in the form of extremely harsh Reconstruction?

by /u/ProgressIsAMyth in /r/AskHistorians

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