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Forever free the story of emancipation and Reconstruction

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 pe...

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Main Author: Foner, Eric, 1943-
Corporate Authors: Forever Free, Inc.
Other Authors: Brown, Joshua, 1949-
Format: Books Print Book
Language: English
Published: New York : Knopf, 2005.
Edition: 1st ed.
Subjects:
Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877)
Slaves > Emancipation > United States.
United States > History > Civil War, 1861-1865 > African Americans.
United States > Race relations > History > 19th century.
United States > Politics and government > 1865-1900.
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.
Item Description: "Forever Free project : Stephen B. Brier, Peter O. Almond, executive editors/producers ; Christine Doudna, editor."
Physical Description: xxx, 268 p. : ill., ports. ; 24 cm.
Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references (p. 239-244) and index.
ISBN: 0375402594 (alk. paper)
Author Notes: Eric Foner is the preeminent historian of his generation. His books have won the top awards in the profession, and he has been president of both major history organizations, the American Historical Association and the Organization of American Historians. He is the author of Give Me Liberty!, which displays all of his trademark strengths as a scholar, teacher, and writer. A specialist on the Civil War/Reconstruction period, he regularly teaches the nineteenth-century survey at Columbia University, where he is DeWitt Clinton Professor of History. In 2011, Foner's The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery won the Pulitzer Prize in History, the Bancroft Prize, and the Lincoln Prize. His Gateway to Freedom: The Hidden History of the Underground Railroad is a 2015 New York Times bestseller.

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