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Analysis Of Stephan Budiansky's The Bloody Shirt
In Stephan Budiansky’s book, The Bloody Shirt, he talks about many aspects of the freed black slaves’ behavior that seems to enrage the white southerners. The white southerners manage to react in a very violent way. The white southerners despise giving the freed slaves rights, they don’t seem to happy about being equal to the freed slaves. They don’t want the freed slaves to be in politics or even to become the sheriff of their town. The white southerners try to avoid these problems they have with the behaviors of the freed black slaves by doing some very violent things to them. They feel as if their way of life and even the civilization thy have built for them is at risk of being gone so they try to keep their way of life with violence. One

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