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Arlington National Cemetery expansion , which pushed the freedmen's village out, may also claim a 24-acre plot of woods around Lee's old home.
After the war, a freedmen's village was established on the Lee plantation, and included a hospital, a school, and a church.
The question of the black franchise became associated with the fears of Democrats that a coalition of freedmen and Republicans would dominate the postbellum South.
The freedmen could aspire to power in the region where they previously had been slaves.
After the Civil War, it is in the inaugurals of Hayes, James Garfield (1881), and Benjamin Harrison (1889) that we find the most explicit and positive discussion of the need to convert into reality the rights and freedom granted to the "freedmen" on paper by the 13 th , 14 th , and 15 th amendments.