Reconstruction: America's Unfinished Revolution, 1863-1877This "masterful treatment of one of the most complex periods of American history" (New Republic) made history when it was originally published in 1988. It redefined how Reconstruction was viewed by historians and people everywhere in its chronicling of how Americans -- black and white -- responded to the unprecedented changes unleashed by the war and the end of slavery. This "smart book of enormous strengths" (Boston Globe) has since gone on to become the classic work on the wrenching post-Civil War period -- an era whose legacy reverberates still today in the United States. |
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For the first time tying Union success to abolition—a commitment from which
Lincoln never retreated—it ignored entirely both compensation and colonization,
and for the first time authorized the large-scale enlistment of black soldiers. In
effect ...
... soldiers became imbued with abolition sentiment. “Since I am here,” one
Democratic colonel wrote from Louisiana, “I have learned and seen . . . what the
horrors of slavery was. . . . Never hereafter will I either speak or vote in favor of
slavery.
“They say,” an Alabama planter reported in 1867, “the Yankees never could have
whipped the South without the aid of the negroes.” Here was a crucial justification
for blacks' self-confident claim to equal citizenship during Reconstruction, ...
From the earliest days of settlement, there had never been a single white South,
and in the nineteenth century the region as a whole, and each state within it, was
divided into areas with sharply differing political economies. The plantation belt ...
But these conflicts rarely challenged planters' domination of state politics and
almost never called into question slavery itself. Many small farmers (nearly half in
both Mississippi and South Carolina) owned a slave or two, and even in the ...
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Crítica de los usuarios - busterrll - LibraryThingGood book but hard reading Wish I had a better knowledge of reconstruction politics. Spot read after a bit, but full of information. Will save and try to reread after reading more on Pres.Johnson. Leer comentario completo
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Crítica de los usuarios - DarthDeverell - LibraryThingEric Foner begins with an assessment of the historiography up to 1988. In the first decade of the 1900s, William Dunning and John W. Burgess articulated a history of Reconstruction that condemned ... Leer comentario completo
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35 | |
The Meaning of Freedom | 77 |
Ambiguities of Free Labor | 124 |
The Failure of Presidential Reconstruction | 176 |
The Making of Radical Reconstruction | 228 |
Blueprints for a Republican South | 281 |
Reconstruction Political and Economic | 346 |
The Challenge of Enforcement | 412 |
The Reconstruction of the North | 460 |
The Politics of Depression | 512 |
Redemption and After | 564 |
The River Has Its Bend | 602 |
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