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Interracial Love and Friendship
The Last of the Mohicans is a novel about race and the difficulty of overcoming racial divides. Cooper suggests that interracial mingling is both desirable and dangerous. Cooper lauds the genuine and longtime friendship between Hawkeye, a white man, and Chingachgook, a Mohican Indian. Hawkeye and Chingachgook’s shared communion with nature transcends race, enabling them to team up against Huron enemies and to save white military leaders like Heyward. On the other hand, though, Cooper shows his conviction that interracial romances are doomed and undesirable. The interracial love of Uncas and Cora ends in tragedy, and the forced interracial relationship between Cora and Magua is portrayed as unnatural. Through Cora, Cooper suggests that interracial desire can be inherited; Cora desires Indian men because her mother was part black.
During reconstruction the Southern states needed to be rebuilt. There were attempts to rebuild, revive the Southern economy, and put the South back up to where it had been. The 13th-15th amendments were also created during this time. However, reconstruction ultimately failed as freed slaves were not properly integrated into society and the efforts to reconstruct were not effective
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Elisha Graves Otis developed a safe elevator.
