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jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
‘In 1864 the Senate had approved the Thirteenth Amendment, abolishing slavery throughout the Union. On January 31, 1865, by a margin of 119 to 56, the Amendment won House approval and was forwarded to the states for ratification. “The one question of the age is settled, declared antislavery Congressman Cornelius Cole. But like so many other achievements of the Civil War, the Amendment closed one issue only to open a host of others. “What is freedom?” James A. Garfield later asked. “Is it the bare privilege of not being chained? . . . If this is all, then freedom is a bitter mockery, a cruel delusion.”’
— A Short History of Reconstruction [Updated Edition] by Eric Foner
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