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Reconstruction has been called one of the most tumultuous and controversial periods of Arkansas's history, an era in which African Americans sought to secure the benefits of their hard-won freedom, the former leaders of the state pursued restoration of their pre-war economic and political status, and the U.S. Army and the Freedmen's Bureau sought to maintain a balance between the two.

Rodney Harris, PhD, President of the Randolph County Heritage Museum is the author of Chapter 6: Redeeming Arkansas: The Constitution of 1874 and Post-War Politics.