Reconstruction Era National Historical Park – South Carolina

NATIONAL HISTORICAL PARK

Reconstruction Era

SC

The Reconstruction era,1861-1898 the historic period in which the United States grappled with the question of how to integrate millions of newly freed African Americans into social, political,economic, and labor systems, was a time of significant transformation. The people, places, and events in Beaufort County, South Carolina, reflect on the most important issues of this tumultuous time period.