Political economist Prabhat Ranjan Sarkar defines the term "evolution" as the accelerated movement of a social cycle. "Revolution" he defines as acceleration of that movement by the application of tremendous force, and reversing the movement of the social cycle by application of tremendous force is called "counter-revolution." Using Sarkar's definitions, and considering the time period, considering the collective worldview of most white southerners towards African-Americans in 1860, what happened in the immediate aftermath of the American Civil War during the Emancipation and Reconstruction Era can only be defined as a revolution. - Garda Ghista
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