A Short History of ReconstructionHarper Collins, 2010 M10 19 - 320 páginas An abridged version of Reconstruction: America's Unfinished Revolution, the definitive study of the aftermath of the Civil War, winner of the Bancroft Prize, Avery O. Craven Prize, Los Angeles Times Book Award, Francis Parkman Prize, and Lionel Trilling Prize. |
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... slaves into free laborers and equal citizens was the most dramatic example of the social and political changes ... former slaves with their party's raison d'etre and the meaning of Union victory in the Civil War. Moreover, in the ...
... slaves into free laborers and equal citizens was the most dramatic example of the social and political changes ... former slaves with their party's raison d'etre and the meaning of Union victory in the Civil War. Moreover, in the ...
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... slavery. The destruction of the central institution of antebellum Southern life permanently transformed the war's character and produced far-reaching conflicts and debates over the role former slaves and their descendants would play in ...
... slavery. The destruction of the central institution of antebellum Southern life permanently transformed the war's character and produced far-reaching conflicts and debates over the role former slaves and their descendants would play in ...
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... former slaves first learned to read and write, either from teachers employed by Northern aid societies or in classrooms and literary clubs established and funded by the soldiers themselves. For men of talent and ambition, the army flung ...
... former slaves first learned to read and write, either from teachers employed by Northern aid societies or in classrooms and literary clubs established and funded by the soldiers themselves. For men of talent and ambition, the army flung ...
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... former Confederates characterized wartime Unionism throughout the border region. Nowhere was this more evident than in Maryland, a state as divided internally as any in the South. Its 87,000 slaves were concentrated in the counties of ...
... former Confederates characterized wartime Unionism throughout the border region. Nowhere was this more evident than in Maryland, a state as divided internally as any in the South. Its 87,000 slaves were concentrated in the counties of ...
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... former slaves. Many delegates denied that support for abolition implied "any sympathy with negro equality." The school system excluded blacks, and the legislature did nothing to alter a prewar statute that authorized local courts to ...
... former slaves. Many delegates denied that support for abolition implied "any sympathy with negro equality." The school system excluded blacks, and the legislature did nothing to alter a prewar statute that authorized local courts to ...
Contenido
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The Meaning of Freedom | 35 |
Ambiguities of Free Labor | 55 |
The Failure of Presidential Reconstruction | 82 |
The Making of Radical Reconstruction | 104 |
Blueprints for a Republican South | 124 |
Political and Economic | 148 |
The Challenge of Enforcement | 180 |
The Reconstruction of the North | 199 |
The Politics of Depression | 217 |
Redemption and After | 238 |
The River Has Its Bend | 254 |
Suggestions for Further Reading | 261 |
Index | 277 |
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Página 23 - I barely suggest for your private consideration, whether some of the colored people may not be let in — as, for instance, the very intelligent, and especially those who have fought gallantly in our ranks.
Página 212 - Think of Patrick and Sambo and Hans and Yung Tung, who do not know the difference between a monarchy and a republic, who can not read the Declaration of Independence or Webster's spelling-book, making laws for Lucretia Mott, Ernestine L. Rose, and Anna E. Dickinson.
Página 116 - How can republican institutions, free schools, free churches, free social intercourse exist in a mingled community of nabobs and serfs; of the owners of twenty-thousand acre manors with lordly palaces, and the occupants of narrow huts inhabited by low white trash'?
Página 34 - It is also unsatisfactory to some that the elective franchise is not given to the colored man. I would myself prefer that it were now conferred on the very intelligent, and on those who serve our cause as soldiers.
Página 129 - Union, but government, the strong arm of power, outstretched from the central authority here in Washington, making it safe for the freedmen of the South, safe for her loyal white men, safe for emigrants from the Old World and from the Northern States to go and dwell there; safe for Northern capital and labor, Northern energy and enterprise...
Página 255 - The whole public are tired out with these annual autumnal outbreaks in the South, and the great majority are ready now to condemn any interference on the part of the Government.
Página 269 - There is an obvious distinction between a cropper and a tenant. One has a possession of the premises, exclusive of the landlord, the other has not. The one has a right for a fixed time, the other has only a right to go on the land to plant, work and gather the crop.
Página 42 - A man in this State cannot do his whole duty as a minister except he looks out for the political interests of his people. They are like a ship out at sea, and they must have somebody to guide them ; and it is natural that they should get their best informed men to lead them.
Página 266 - States, and when they were called upon to protect the lives of negroes — as much citizens under the Constitution as if their skins were white — the country was scarcely large enough to hold the sound of indignation belched forth by them for some years. Now, however, there is no hesitation about exhausting the whole power of the government to suppress a strike on the slightest intimation that danger threatens.