books.google.co.uk - After the American Civil War, several movements for ethnic separatism and political self-determination significantly shaped the course of Reconstruction. The Union Leagues, which began during the war to support the northern effort, spread to the South after the war and mobilized African Americans to...http://books.google.co.uk/books/about/Fenians_freedmen_and_southern_Whites.html?id=YJ3CrOiJ6wYC&utm_source=gb-gplus-shareFenians, freedmen, and southern Whites