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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... delegates (who, he pointed out, “have obtained the means of education by the black man's sweat”). But when some of these delegates questioned blacks' right to the suffrage, Murphey felt compelled to protest: “Has not the man who ...
... delegates to secession conventions in the winter of 1860– 61 produced massive repudiations of disunion in yeoman areas. Once the war had begun, most of the upcountry rallied to the Confederate cause. But from the outset, disloyalty was ...
... delegate lamented that the freedmen's material interests “had not been sufficiently considered by the Convention.”49 Nonetheless, the national convention galvanized a black assault upon the Northern color line that, in the war's final ...
... delegates abolished slavery, restricted suffrage to “loyal” whites, and provided for a system of public education apparently intended to be closed to blacks, since it would be financed by taxes on whites alone.)7 The amalgam of ...
... counties. Voting was confined to those who could take a strict loyalty oath, which included an avowal that one had never expressed a “desire” for the Confederacy's triumph. The delegates celebrated the dawn of a new era,
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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 | |