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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... legislature opposed.3 The Union party of Kentucky, remarked Gen. John M. Palmer, the federal military commander in the state, “is distinguished by its timidity.” Slavery was more deeply entrenched here than elsewhere in the border ...
... legislature did nothing to alter a prewar statute that authorized local courts to apprentice free black children, even over the objections of their parents. Within a month of November 1, 1864, the date of emancipation, literally ...
... legislature to establish schools for blacks, and guaranteeing their right to testify in court. Drake himself favored black suffrage, but feared that such a provision would ensure the constitution's defeat. In Missouri, as in the rest of ...
... legislature from altering the disenfranchising provisions before 1871. Some delegates wanted to go even further, proposing to confiscate the property of secessionists in order to compensate Unionists for their wartime losses. Here were ...
... legislature by basing representation upon voting population rather than total number of inhabitants (thus reducing the power of the plantation parishes). In addition, the new constitution established a minimum wage and ninehour day on ...
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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 | |