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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... Mississippi Department of Archives and History MHS—Massachusetts Historical Society MoHR—Missouri Historical Review MVHR—Mississippi Valley Historical Review NA—National Archives NCHR—North Carolina Historical Review NCDAH—North ...
... Mississippi Valley in 1863, large numbers of planters, merchants, and factors salvaged their fortunes by engaging in cotton traffic with the Yankee occupiers. In few was selfinterest as unalloyed as James L. Alcorn (Mississippi's future.
... Mississippi, bands of deserters hid from Confederate authorities, and organizations like Choctaw County's Loyal League worked to “break up the war by advising desertion, robbing the families of those who remained in the army, and ...
... Mississippi River with a black population of over 700,000, the system was extended to the entire Mississippi Valley. Here, the army's first concern was not the labor system per se, but the masses of slaves who fled to Union lines. In ...
... Mississippi plantations; the cabins became overcrowded, disease was rife, the death rate soared.44 In the spring of 1863, Gen. Lorenzo Thomas devised a plan to lease plantations along the Mississippi River to loyal men from the North ...
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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 | |