Reconstruction: America's Unfinished Revolution, 1863-1877Harper Collins, 2002 M02 5 - 736 páginas This "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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Página xv
... Negro was the central figure and the most effective in Reconstruction : in this he was , to be sure , anticipated by the great Negro leader , Du Bois . To the support of his thesis , Mr. Foner has brought a prodigious body of evidence ...
... Negro was the central figure and the most effective in Reconstruction : in this he was , to be sure , anticipated by the great Negro leader , Du Bois . To the support of his thesis , Mr. Foner has brought a prodigious body of evidence ...
Página xviii
... negro rule " and " negro government , " blacks in fact played little role in the narratives . Their aspirations , if mentioned at all , were ridiculed , and their role in shaping the course of events during Reconstruction ignored . When ...
... negro rule " and " negro government , " blacks in fact played little role in the narratives . Their aspirations , if mentioned at all , were ridiculed , and their role in shaping the course of events during Reconstruction ignored . When ...
Página xx
... Negro rule " was a myth and that Reconstruction repre- sented more than " the blackout of honest government . " The establish- ment of public school systems , the granting of equal citizenship to blacks , the effort to revitalize the ...
... Negro rule " was a myth and that Reconstruction repre- sented more than " the blackout of honest government . " The establish- ment of public school systems , the granting of equal citizenship to blacks , the effort to revitalize the ...
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... Negro is the key of the situation— the pivot upon which the whole rebellion turns . " Carl Schurz , who had fled his native Germany after the abortive revolution of 1848 and emerged as a leading antislavery lecturer in the 1850s , later ...
... Negro is the key of the situation— the pivot upon which the whole rebellion turns . " Carl Schurz , who had fled his native Germany after the abortive revolution of 1848 and emerged as a leading antislavery lecturer in the 1850s , later ...
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... Negro during the Civil War ( Chicago , 1967 ) , 39 , 44-45 , 66 , 97 ; Richardson , ed . , Messages , 6:54 , 128 , 136-37 , 140-41 . There is an excellent account of the coming of emancipation in Peter J. Parish , The American Civil War ...
... Negro during the Civil War ( Chicago , 1967 ) , 39 , 44-45 , 66 , 97 ; Richardson , ed . , Messages , 6:54 , 128 , 136-37 , 140-41 . There is an excellent account of the coming of emancipation in Peter J. Parish , The American Civil War ...
Contenido
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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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Pasajes populares
Página 49 - I barely suggest for your private consideration, whether some of the colored people may not be let in — as, for instance, the very intelligent, and especially those who have fought gallantly in our ranks.
Página 94 - For, behold, the Lord will come with fire, and with his chariots like a whirlwind, to render his anger with fury, and his rebuke with flames of fire.
Página 236 - If the South is ever to be made a safe republic let her lands be cultivated by the toil of the owners or the free labor of intelligent citizens.
Página 229 - Eric Foner, Free Soil, Free Labor, Free Men: The Ideology of the Republican Party before the Civil War (New York: Oxford University Press, 1970).
Página 80 - Jacqueline Jones, Labor of Love, Labor of Sorrow. Black Women, Work, and the Family from Slavery to the Present (New York: Basic Books, 1985); Deborah Gray White, Ar'n't I a Woman?
Página 448 - Think of Patrick and Sambo and Hans and Yung Tung, who do not know the difference between a monarchy and a republic, who can not read the Declaration of Independence or Webster's spelling-book, making laws for Lucretia Mott, Ernestine L. Rose, and Anna E. Dickinson.
Página 609 - The claim that there is nothing in the color of the skin from the point of view of political ethics is a great sophism. A black skin means membership in a race of men which has never of itself succeeded in subjecting passion to reason, has never, therefore, created any civilization of any kind.
Página 94 - And it shall come to pass, that from one new moon to another, and from one sabbath to another, shall all flesh come to worship before me, saith the Lord.
Página 74 - It is also unsatisfactory to some that the elective franchise is not given to the colored man. I would myself prefer that it were now conferred on the very intelligent, and on those who serve our cause as soldiers.
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A Festival of Violence: An Analysis of Southern Lynchings, 1882-1930 Stewart Emory Tolnay,E. M. Beck Vista previa limitada - 1995 |