In particular, Trowbridge stressed a need for justice where freedmen would be paid fairly on the merits of their labor in a market economy. To further improve the South and speed recovery, Michel discussed Trowbridge’s belief that former Confederate officials should not be readmitted to position of political power in the post war South. Trowbridge was adamant that the men who he believed were responsible for the carnage of the Civil War should be prevented from reaffirming the social, political, and economic order of the Antebellum South. Trowbridge, according to Michel, believed that men of principle that were loyal to the Union should be capitalized in the South’s reconstruction. Sadly, this was not to be as the bitterness of the South’s defeat and military occupation
In particular, Trowbridge stressed a need for justice where freedmen would be paid fairly on the merits of their labor in a market economy. To further improve the South and speed recovery, Michel discussed Trowbridge’s belief that former Confederate officials should not be readmitted to position of political power in the post war South. Trowbridge was adamant that the men who he believed were responsible for the carnage of the Civil War should be prevented from reaffirming the social, political, and economic order of the Antebellum South. Trowbridge, according to Michel, believed that men of principle that were loyal to the Union should be capitalized in the South’s reconstruction. Sadly, this was not to be as the bitterness of the South’s defeat and military occupation