mid-throes

Updated: June 24, 2025

These were the brave words of a Southern newspaper, the Galveston Bulletin, in January, 1867, in the mid-throes of reconstruction. So it was that the best minds of the reunited nation foresaw and accepted the path on which we still are slowly mounting; often slipping, stumbling, falling, but still getting upward.

George Spring Merriam - The Negro and the Nation: A History of American Slavery and Enfranchisement