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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... Northern public—abolitionists and Radical Republicans—recognized that secession offered a golden opportunity to strike a fatal blow at slavery. “We have entered upon a struggle,” wrote a Massachusetts abolitionist four days after the ...
... Northern black leaders to support the colonization of freedmen in Central America or the Caribbean, insisting “there is an unwillingness on the part of our people, harsh as it may be for you colored people to remain with us.” Whether ...
... Northern states), and former slaves for the first time saw the impersonal sovereignty of the law supersede the personal authority of a master. The galling issue of unequal pay sparked a movement that familiarized former slaves with the ...
... northern and southern Alabama, for no railroad pierced the mountains; the planters and farmers of northern Alabama traded with Nashville, Louisville, and Cincinnati, while the black belt lay within the economic orbit of Mobile and New ...
... northern Alabama hill country believed yeomen had no business fighting for a planterdominated Confederacy: “All tha want is to git you ... to fight for their infurnal negroes and after you do their fightin' you may kiss their hine parts ...
Contenido
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 | |