Forever free, the story of emancipation and Reconstruction, Eric Foner ; illustrations edited and with commentary by Joshua Brown
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Forever free, the story of emancipation and Reconstruction, Eric Foner ; illustrations edited and with commentary by Joshua Brown
Language
eng
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 239-244) and index
Illustrations
illustrationsportraits
Index
index present
Literary Form
non fiction
Main title
Forever free
Nature of contents
bibliography
Oclc number
57557510
Responsibility statement
Eric Foner ; illustrations edited and with commentary by Joshua Brown
Sub title
the story of emancipation and Reconstruction
Summary
This new examination of the years of Emancipation and Reconstruction during and immediately following the Civil War emphasizes the era's political and cultural meaning for today's America. Historian Foner overturns numerous assumptions growing out of the traditional understanding of the period, which is based almost exclusively on white sources and shaped by (often unconscious) racism. He presents the period as a time of determination, especially on the part of recently emancipated black Americans, to put into effect the principles of equal rights and citizenship for all. He makes clear how, by war's end, freed slaves built on networks of church and family in order to exercise their right of suffrage as well as gain access to education, land, and employment, and shows that the birth of the Ku Klux Klan and renewed acts of racial violence were retaliation for the progress made by blacks soon after the war.--From publisher description
Table Of Contents
The peculiar institution -- True likenesses -- Forever free -- Re-visions of war -- The meanings of freedom -- Altered relations -- An American crisis -- The tocsin of freedom -- On the offensive -- The facts of reconstruction -- Countersigns -- The abandonment of reconstruction -- Jim Crow -- The unfinished revolution
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- 1800-1900
- Race relations
- Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877)
- Politics and government
- Slaves + Emancipation -- United States
- Reconstruction (United States, 1865-1877
- Sklaverei
- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- African Americans
- History
- Negers
- United States -- Politics and government -- 1865-1900
- USA
- Reconstruction (1865-1877)
- United States -- Race relations -- History -- 19th century
- Abschaffung
- Slaves + Emancipation
- Schwarze
- United States
- Emancipatie
- Sezessionskrieg
- Rechtsstellung
- American Civil War, 1861-1865
- African Americans
- Geschichte 1865-1900
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- Creator1
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- Subject24
- 1800-1900
- Race relations
- Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877)
- Politics and government
- Slaves + Emancipation -- United States
- Reconstruction (United States, 1865-1877
- Sklaverei
- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- African Americans
- History
- Negers
- United States -- Politics and government -- 1865-1900
- USA
- Reconstruction (1865-1877)
- United States -- Race relations -- History -- 19th century
- Abschaffung
- Slaves + Emancipation
- Schwarze
- United States
- Emancipatie
- Sezessionskrieg
- Rechtsstellung
- American Civil War, 1861-1865
- African Americans
- Geschichte 1865-1900
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