The wars of Reconstruction the brief, violent history of America's most progressive era
"By 1870, just five years after Confederate surrender and thirteen years after the Dred Scott decision ruled blacks ineligible for citizenship, Congressional action had ended slavery and given the vote to black men. That same year, Hiram Revels and Joseph Hayne Rainey became the first African-Americ...
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New York :
Bloomsbury,
2013.
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| Edition: | First U.S. edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- Prologue: Robert Vesey's Charleston
- "An eagle on his button": Black men fight for the union
- "To forget and forgive old scores": war's end, activism's beginning
- "All de land belongs to de yankees now": the Freedmen's Bureau
- "The Lord has sent us books and teachers": missionaries and community formation
- "We will remember our friends, and will not forget our enemies": black codes and black conventions
- "Andrew Johnson is but one man": the Progressive Alliance coalesces
- "We knows that much better than you do": voting rights and political service
- "An absolute massacre": white violence and the end of Reconstruction in the South
- "We shall be recognized as men": the Reconstruction Era in memory
- Epilogue: the spirit of freedom monument.
