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Confederate general and later founder of the Ku Klux Klan, Nathan Bedford Forrest, later apparently had a change of heart and near the end of his life advocated for racial harmony. Do historians see this as a genuine turn of face, or him trying to ingratiate himself to the new power structure?

by /u/Enleat in /r/AskHistorians

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