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Justin Behrend is Professor of History and Chair of the History Department at SUNY Geneseo. He is the author of Reconstructing Democracy: Grassroots Black Politics in the Deep South after the Civil War (2015) as well as articles on Reconstruction, emancipation, political mobilization, slave rebellion, and the memory of Reconstruction. Since 2007, he has taught courses at Geneseo on the Civil War era, African American history, slavery, baseball, and other interdisciplinary topics.