In such a situation, the granting of the ballot to the black man was a necessity, the very least a guilty nation could grant a wronged race, and the only method of compelling the South to accept the results of the war.
Du Bois argues that granting Black men the ballot was an essential act of justice and the only way to enforce the outcomes of the Civil War in the South.
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