Forever free
the story of emancipation and Reconstruction
1st ed.
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Author
Contributions
- Brown, Joshua, 1949- - Contributor
- Forever Free, Inc. - Contributor
Publication
2005 - Knopf, New York, New York (State)
Language
English
Word Count
67,000 words, Guess
Page Count
268 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL3420749M
- ISBN-100375402594
- OCLC Control Number57557510
- OCLC Control Numberforeverfreestory00fone
- Library of Congress Control Number2005040706
and 2 more
- LibraryThing2398456
- Goodreads1116029
Classifications
- DDC973.8
- LCCE668 .F655 2005
Description
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.
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