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The second founding how the Civil War and Reconstruction remade the Constitution

The Declaration of Independence announced equality as an American ideal, but it took the Civil War and the subsequent adoption of three constitutional amendments to abolish slavery, guarantee all persons due process and equal protection of the law, and equip black men with the right to vote. Foner t...

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Main Author: Foner, Eric, 1943- (Author)
Format: Books Print Book
Language: English
Published: New York, NY : W.W. Norton & Company, Inc., [2019]
Edition: First edition.
Subjects:
Goldstein, Marshall tribute.
Constitutional history > United States > 19th century.
Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877) > Influence.
United States > History > Civil War, 1861-1865 > Law and legislation.
Summary: The Declaration of Independence announced equality as an American ideal, but it took the Civil War and the subsequent adoption of three constitutional amendments to abolish slavery, guarantee all persons due process and equal protection of the law, and equip black men with the right to vote. Foner traces the arc of these pivotal amendments from their dramatic origins in pre-Civil War mass meetings of African-American "colored citizens" and in Republican party politics to their virtual nullification in the late nineteenth century. -- adapted from jacket
Physical Description: xxix, 224 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references (pages 180-205) and index.
ISBN: 9780393652574
0393652572
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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