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A 3 page essay that draws on Armstead Robinson's essay "Plans Dat Comed From God," which addresses the question of how newly freed slaves managed the problems of self-support. Among other findings, Robinson's research shows that there was a distinct schism in the black community in Memphis during the Reconstruction era. Robinson maintains that during this time "urban communities developed a split institutional personality," which mirrored emerging social-class distinctions within these communities (73). No additional sources cited.
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newly freed slaves handled his task quite readily erecting "an institutional infrastructure that facilitated the adjustment to freedom" (Robinson 72). Among other findings, Robinsons research shows that there was a
distinct schism in the black community in Memphis during the Reconstruction era. Robinson maintains that during this time "urban communities developed a split institutional personality," which mirrored emerging social-class distinctions
within these communities (Robinson 73). Understanding these social fault lines necessitates seeing these communities within the social/cultural context of the time. The governor of Tennessee during the Reconstruction era, the
Reverend William G. Brownlow, articulated the feelings of whites at this time. He predicted that freed slaves would "gradually become extinct," because they no longer had owners to care for
them, and he predicted that "Idleness, starvation and disease" would remove the vast majority with a generation (Robinson 80). As this suggests, freed people were up against a formidable task.
Yet, according to Robinson, the black community handled the tasks of institution building and self sufficiency quite well, but, he also stipulates that they did not do who as a
united community, but rather that the black community diverged according to socioeconomic classes. Conflicts and tensions, inherent within the black community, reacted to external forces to produce "distinctive leadership
groups" (Robinson 73). Apparently these community fault lines developed in accordance with the religious/ benevolent functions of the community, on one hand, and political activity on the other. In
1866, there was a violent riot between blacks and Irish immigrants who competed for the same manual labor positions. Whether or not working class blacks would be allowed to continue
to compete with the Irish was a "major question of the post-riot period" (Robinson 95). The economic elite of the black community drafted a letter to the head of the
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