They couldn’t imagine where the worthless things had suddenly sunk to, until it occurred to some of them to observe that this disappearance began shortly after their reconstructed Legislature had embodied its wisdom in laws on the negro question.
Reid suggests that the disappearance of freedmen was linked to new laws enacted by the reconstructed Legislature.
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