In 1877 at the collapse of Reconstruction, formerly enslaved Louisianan Henry Adams remarked, "The whole South—every state in the South—has got [back] into the hands of the very men that held us as slaves." Another formerly enslaved man, Thomas Hall from South Carolina noted, "The Yankees helped free us, so they say, but [in 1877] they let us be put back in slavery again." What do these quotations reveal about the effectiveness of Reconstruction and its significance for the nation's future?

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