Reconstruction: America's Unfinished Revolution, 1863-1877Harper Collins, 2011 M12 13 - 736 páginas From the "preeminent historian of Reconstruction" (New York Times Book Review), a newly updated edition of the prize-winning classic work on the post-Civil War period which shaped modern America, with a new introduction from the author. Eric Foner's "masterful treatment of one of the most complex periods of American history" (New Republic) redefined how the post-Civil War period was viewed. Reconstruction chronicles the way in which Americans—black and white—responded to the unprecedented changes unleashed by the war and the end of slavery. It addresses the ways in which the emancipated slaves' quest for economic autonomy and equal citizenship shaped the political agenda of Reconstruction; the remodeling of Southern society and the place of planters, merchants, and small farmers within it; the evolution of racial attitudes and patterns of race relations; and the emergence of a national state possessing vastly expanded authority and committed, for a time, to the principle of equal rights for all Americans. This "smart book of enormous strengths" (Boston Globe) remains the standard work on the wrenching post-Civil War period—an era whose legacy still reverberates in the United States today. |
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... Benjamin F. Butler, of designating fugitive slaves as “contraband of war.” Instead of being either emancipated or returned to their owners, they would be employed as laborers for the Union armies.9 Then, too, an influential segment of ...
... Benjamin F. Butler seized New Orleans in April 1862, the Union came into possession of the South's largest and most distinctive city. The nation's premier cotton port, New Orleans was embedded in a web of commercial relations with New ...
... Benjamin F. Butler. A response to the flight of slaves from the plantations and the insubordination of those who remained, Butler's policy required blacks to continue to labor on.
... Benjamin F. Wade and Maryland Congressman Henry Winter Davis, issued an intemperate “manifesto,” accusing Lincoln of defying the judgement of Congress and exercising “dictatorial usurpation.”50 Despite the harsh language of the ...
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Ambiguities of Free Labor | |
The Failure of Presidential Reconstruction | |
The Making of Radical Reconstruction | |
Blueprints for a Republican South | |
The Challenge of Enforcement | |
The Reconstruction of the North | |
The Politics of Depression | |
Redemption and After | |
Epilogue | |
Index | |
Acknowledgments | |
Political and Economic | |