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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... leaders, stood vigil at Boston's Tremont Temple, awaiting word that the Proclamation had been signed. It was nearly midnight when the news arrived; wild cheering followed, and a black preacher led the throng in singing “Sound the loud ...
... 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 his embrace of ...
... leaders—like Annie Wittenmyer of Iowa, subsequently the first president of the Women's Christian Temperance Union ... leadership of ministers, professionals, and members of abolitionist societies, had long searched for a means of ...
... leaders dominated the state, thanks to an archaic system of legislative apportionment that reduced the influence of ... leader Hugh Lennox Bond, brought in its wake “a great army of ideas.” These found a receptive audience among the ...
... leaders of Mississippi Reconstruction, including Israel Shadd, speaker of the state's House of Representatives and husband of a Bend schoolteacher, Albert Johnson, who served in Mississippi's constitutional convention and legislature ...
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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 | |