Alright

   Lincoln is out, which is about the ratification of the thirteenth amendment; during the trailers of which one for Django Unchained coming out soon, which is about a slave-turned-bounty-hunter; and having recently rewatched Holes, which is about digging for the buried treasure of a woman who turned outlaw after they killed her boyfriend for being black... I'm thinking God is trying to tell me not to be racist. Well, thanks, God. I wasn't planning on it.

   The year is 1863. The Civil War has just ended; a new battle has begun: The Reconstruction of the United States itself. The Union had broken up during the Civil War by separatist states, forming the Confederate States. When the Union won, the nation had to be mended, in an era known as the Reconstruction. But, right as this is beginning, the President was shot. Would Southern Reconstruction been more successful if Abraham Lincoln had not been assassinated? It’s pretty clear that Andrew Johnson was a bad president (he was impeached,) but would even Lincoln be good enough for the enormous task?
   If Reconstruction had been done by Lincoln, would we still have quite as much racism in the South? Would blacks not be restricted by segregation later on? Would we still have the black power movement?