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Few periods in American history have aroused as much debate as the years immediately after the Civil War, those commonly referred to simply as Reconstruction.

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Derived from the moral accountability called for by the Great Awakening and the Quaker religion, the abolitionist movement demanded not just the gradual dismantling of the system or a mandated political end to slavery, but an end to prejudice in the hearts of the American people.